RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Cucurbita ovifera, fig 61. CUL-DAR209.6.65. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Fig 61. Cucurbita ovifera [sketch]
Fac-simile: the heel-like projection rests on tip of seed-coats & it is to show this that drawing is given; by growth of arched stem with this point on heel holding down lower point, the seed-coats are torn open.
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Cucurbita ovifera: germinating seed with heel projecting from base sum of arched hypocotyl radicles & resting on lower apex of — seed coats, by which means these are finally soon ruptured & cast off.
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