RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.01.09. Entoca viscida / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.8.69. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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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Entoca viscida & weeds —Apo-geotropism
Painted on one side & then put in dark
(C) (F) (23) Olive oil & Lamp-back on one middle of stem
4° 30 not at all curved
(D) & F. Spermaceti & L. Black on one side: I think both of them are Entoca
one decidedly curved to black side, not so the other, on which, however most of the black had curled off
Jan. 9' Painted elongated plumule of Bean with lamp-black & O. oil & with Indian ink & oil & placed pot horizontal & Lamp-black more turned up than Indian-ink but one not painted more than either— 2 delicate weeds killed by both mixtures
[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, bottom half. Published pp. 225-6.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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