RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.04.23. Epimedium. CUL-DAR209.6.80c. 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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April 23' 1879 Epimedium
The petioles which are very long when mature & the flower peduncles which are likewise long rise separately from the leaves, both break through the ground in the early spring in strongly arched form.
The very young leaves are apogeotropic & Heliotropic, but not strongly so.— joints do not bend, but the thin wiry petioles between joints
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