RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.09.02. Lathyrus aphaca. CUL-DAR209.7.65. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR209.7-8 contain notes on heliotropism (phototropism) for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

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N.B. Lathyrus aphaca — I can detect no apheliotropism in tendrils, & yet they circumnutate very little — top of stem is highly heliotropic —

Nor can I in Greenhouse see any signs in L. maritimus.—

Sept 2d. 1879.

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