RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Sleep of cotyledons / List of seedling plants. CUL-DAR209.9.93. 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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Sleep of cotyledons

Ch VI (Small type double column.)

(List of seedling plants, the cotyledons of which rise or sink at night to at least an angle of at least about 60° above or beneath the horizon.)

Brassica oleracea. Cruciferae (Fam. 14.)

─ napus (as we are informed by Prof. Pfeffer.)

Raphanus sativus do.

Lychnis githago Githago segetum Caryophyllaceae (Fam. 26)

Stellaria medica, (according to Hoffmeister as quoted) do.

Anoda Wrightii (Malvaceæ) (Malvaceæ. (Fam 36))

Gossypium. (var. Nankin Cotton) (?)

Oxalis rosea Oxalidæ (Fam. 41)

─ floribunda

─ articulata

─ valdiviana

─ sensitiva

Geranium rotundifolium Geraniaceæ (Fam 47)

Trifolium subterraneum Leguminosæ (Fam 75)

─ strictum do (Tribe 3.)

leucanthemum

Lotus ornithopopoides do. (Tribe 4.)

─ peregrinus

─ Jacobœus

Clianthus Dampieri do. (Tribe. 5) (according to M. Ramey.)

Smithia sensitiva. do. (Tribe 6.)

Hæmatoxylon Campechianum (according to Mr. R. I. Lynch) do. (Tribe 13.)

Cassia mimosoides do (Tribe 14.)

─ glauca

─ florida

─ corymbosa

─ pubescens

─ tora

─ neglecta

─ 3 other unnamed Brazilian sp.

14 species

─ Bauhina (?) Leguminosæ. (Tribe 15)

─ Neptunia oleracea do. (Tribe 20.)

Mimosa pudica do. (Tribe 21)

albida.

Cucurbita ovifera. Cucurbitaceae (Fam 106)

Cucurbitaceæ

─ aurantia aurantia

Lagenaria vulgaris do.

Cucumis dudaim do.

Hedera h

Apium graveolens* Umbelliferae. (Fam 113)

─ Petroselinum */ do

Hedera helix [illeg] (Fam. 114)

Lactuca scariola Compositæ (Fam 122)

Helianthus annuus (?) Compositae (Fam. 122) do.

Ipomœa ─ purpurea caerulea. Convolvulaceæ (Fam 151)

─ bona-nox

─ coccinea

Solanum lycopersicum Solaneæ (Fam. 157)

[illeg] do

Mimulus tigrinus (?) Scrophulariaceæ (Fam. 159) from information given us by Prof. Pfeffer.

Mirabilis jalapa. Nyctagineæ (Fam. 177)

─ longiflora

Beta vulgaris Polygoneæ (Fam. 179)

Amaranthus caudatus Amarathaceæ (Fam. 180)

Cannabis sativa. (?) Cannabineæ (Fam. 195)

[Movement in plants, p. 300]


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