RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Henslow, Gerard and Braun. CUL-DAR45.151. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.
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Henslow's Bot. p. 130 — a few cones on same trees often possess a different divergence from rest & even on same cone; many of these anomalies originate in causes, which it is not difficult to appreciate.— It is often common to find in cones on same tree the generating spiral turning to right & left —
[Henslow, John Stevens. 1837. Descriptive and physiological botany. (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia: Natural History). new ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. CUL-DAR.LIB.268 PDF]
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Mem. Sagina procumbens with all organs in 4'. & 5' — Rue with upper flower in 4 parts.— (in Bentham but not good case)
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{Gérard Pamph. 8vo 121. p. 6 Cannabis sativa has opposite leaves has vars with opposite leaves
[Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l'espèce dans les corps organisés. (extract from: d'Orbigny, ed., Dictionnaire universel d'histoire Naturelle , vol. 5, pp. 428-452.) [3 copies, one marked 'à Monsieur Hooker père, hommage de l'auteur' and 'C Darwin Esq, from JDH'; the other marked 'Given me by Dr Lindley'; the third recorded as 'bought' in CUL-DAR119] [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 121] PDF]
Scientific memoirs 3/267 4/276 Twisting of leaves.
This does not refer to position of axis, but to leaf itself which is twisted one way or other; but sometimes varies.—
Braun Rejuvenescence p. 116 — Plants begin as a whole, or in a branch, on simple plan 1/1 or 1/2 & then become more complicated, in bracts of receptacle — then simpler in cyclic combination in the flower —
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