RECORD: Darwin, Francis. 1874.07.06. Drosera Sugar. CUL-DAR57.111. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).


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Drosera Sugar

July 6 74

Big Pot

Left leaf (label looking at one)

One hair on left side & one on right close to stalk bent a good deal

a R & L one near top bent a little more than the others [sketch] Pot was twisted round to draw R leaf

Lamina in a line with stalk

Right leaf — All abt at rt angles except two in the figure

1N. 3E 2SE — 2 or 3 slight W

Small Pot

L leaf

None quite so much bent as R leaf. No peculiar ones— [sketch] L

Lamina in line w stalk

R. leaf

Most at rt angles. 2 hairs at N.W E & 2 at N curled so as to touch 3 or 4 at N more bent than a rt angle [sketch] R

Lamina in line w stalk

Sugaring completed & placed them in damp chamber 9.20

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July 4. 74 9. Am

In small few pot daubed tentacles— The tentacles of sugar one all rather bent back—

In b "many" pot — the sugar one has tentacles backwards abt [sketch] meat not backwards 3rd sugar [sketch] bent quite back many of them


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