RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Botanische Zeitung, etc. CUL-DAR209.9.108. 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

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The volume CUL-DAR209.9 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Bouche on sleep. Bot. Zeitung 1874. p. 359.

[Movement in plants, p. 383: "Melaleuca ericaefolia (Myrtaceae).—According to Bouché ('Bot. Zeit.,' 1874, p. 359) the leaves sleep at night, in nearly the same manner as those of certain species of Pimelia."]

Morren. Sparmannia. p. 162. Pfeffer

[Movement in plants, p. 226: "We made no observations on the movements of the different parts of flowers. Morren, however, has observed† in the stamens of Sparmannia and Cereus a "fremissement spontané," which, it may be suspected, is a circumnutating movement.
† 'N. Mem. de l'Acad. R. de Bruxelles,' tom. xiv. 1841, p. 3."]

Royer. p. 171 Pfeffer.

(All Used & seen to)

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3d Series Botanique.— vol 14, p. 324 H. Hoffman sur le sommeil des Plants

Reference p. 18 Bot of my abstract of Annales des Sc. Nat. on Sleep of Plants — showing that Cold & Heat chief causes

See Pfeffer— I think gives references


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