RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.05.30. Passiflora punctata. CUL-DAR209.7.79. 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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Passiflora punctata May 30' 1879. Plant with tendril placed before N.E window

Semicircle moving to Light

1° 29' & then remained stationary & straightened itself

1. 13'

Semicircle moving from light,

0.53'

0.52'

Therefore seems to move quickest from light, but too few observations to trust.—

Former observation

[calculations]

Therefore here seems again to move rather more quickly from light


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