RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.02.11. Helleborus niger. CUL-DAR209.6.86. 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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Feb. 11. 1879

With the Christmas rose Helleborus niger the leaflets [illeg] leafless or peduncle break through, bearing 1 or 2 flowers, break through the ground as an arch, with the flowers dependent

The snowdrop rises straight & afterward flower droops.


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