RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.03.21. Trifolium Pannonicum / Trifolium rubens / Draft of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.9.56. 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).


[56]

March 21. 1878.

Trifolium Pannonicum 1 seedling with Hor. horizontal cots at noon; not raised 10°15 P.m not raised

(Yes 17 specimen + 3)

Tr. rubens — 2 or 3 seedling with Cots Horizontal at noon: certainly not raised at 10° 15 P.m

[56v]

─ styled from the stigma stand a little above the tips of the petals, & on a level with the anthers of the longest stamens in the other two forms. The pistil is in length to that of the mid-styled as 100 to 56, & to that of the short-styled as 100 to 16. Its summit is rectangularly bent [line excised]

[Forms of flowers, p. 185: "In the long-styled form the stigma stands a little above the tips of the petals, and on a level with the anthers of the longest stamens in the other two forms. The pistil is in length to that of the mid-styled as 100 to 56, and to that of the short-styled as 100 to 16. Its summit is rectangularly bent upwards, and the stigma is rather broader than that of the mid-styled, and broader in about the ratio of 7 to 4 than that of the short-styled."]


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