RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 5.1874. Plants greenhouse 75-76° placed in water at 45°. CUL-DAR57.27-29. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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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May 28' 74/ 8. A.m
Plants greenhouse 75—76° placed in water at 45°
Dish I
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8. |
8. 30' |
9 5' |
10. |
11 10' |
1. & 2. 30' |
4º 40' |
(1) |
very long stalk |
little subinflected |
same state |
same |
same |
same |
considerably reexpanded |
(2) |
rather long small leaf |
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O |
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O |
(3) |
shorter large leaf |
tentacles rather upright |
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O |
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O |
(4) |
short. |
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O |
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O |
Dish II
8. 5' — 5 leaves placed from above plant in distilled water at 75°
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8. 5' |
8º. 33; |
9. 9' |
10. |
11. 10' |
1. & 2. 30' |
4º 40 |
(1) |
leaf very long stalk |
t. rather upright 9 or 10 inflected |
same state |
same |
fewer sub-inflected |
same state |
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(2) |
2d stem with 2 or 3 inflected |
& good del of inflected |
30 or 40 subinflected |
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do not closely inflected |
reexpanding |
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(3) |
with bits of skin |
O |
a little upright |
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trace of sub-inflected |
reexpanding |
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(4) |
shorter |
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a few sub-inflected |
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(5) |
short |
t. upright or subinflected |
rather decidedly do |
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upright |
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(Dish III)
4 leaves from hot Plate in water at 57° temp. of room
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8. 14 |
8º. 35' |
9. 10' |
10. |
11. 10' |
1. + 2. 30' |
4º 40' |
(1) longish |
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same |
a little sub-inflection |
same state |
all fully reexpanded |
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(2) shorter longer leaf |
t. upright |
t. subinflected |
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O |
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(3) |
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O |
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(4) |
smallest |
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O |
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Frankland Distilled Water 1874 — 5 dr. of water
May 17th I do not think that I quite succeeded in not touching any
Put in |
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8. 30' |
9. 30 |
10. 20' |
12. |
1. |
2. 30' |
4º |
4º 40' |
8º |
2d largest stem |
2 or 3 dozen ron-hed inflected |
same state |
same |
same |
same |
I think opening |
opening |
all 6 almost fully rexpanded |
― |
middle do |
O |
O |
O |
do |
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― |
short side |
O |
O |
O |
do |
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Dish nr 12 |
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8. 4' |
longest st |
O |
O |
a trace of sub-inflected |
do |
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― |
middle do |
almost all sub- inflected |
all subinflected |
same st. |
do |
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almost opening |
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― |
short do. |
almost all sub-inflected |
all but 5 sub |
same st. |
not all ( at 11. some aggregation ie after 2º. tentacles inflected |
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reopening |
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May 17' very fine leaves out of hot-green House
Did I unconsciously pick out better leaves for the Phosphate
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Frankland Distilled Water 1/2 dr.
May 17' 1874
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9. |
9. 32' |
10. 35' |
12. |
1. |
2. 25 |
4º |
7. |
18th ,7. 30' Am |
(1) |
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3 sub-inflected |
do |
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all same state |
same |
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all same |
disc & submarg inf |
(2) |
O |
O |
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do much new inflection |
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(3) |
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several dozen say 50 |
same, closely inflect. |
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do |
(4) |
9. 3' (2 inflected) |
7 inflected |
several & some sub-inflected |
15 or 16 subinflected |
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I think opening |
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do |
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(5) |
X |
almost all inflected |
same st |
cut some up X—— 11. 10 some — aggregation in inflected tentacles } |
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(6) |
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a vast number say 50 |
same |
same |
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same state |
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(18' 7. 30 much inflection in 5, 6, 7 & 8 on disc & all many submarginals) |
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(7) |
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19 inflected |
same |
same |
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(8) |
9, 7. |
several dozen say 50 |
same |
same sta |
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10. 40' |
11. 20 |
12. |
1. |
2º. 20' |
4º |
7. |
(9) |
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2 inflected |
same |
all same state |
same state |
same state |
same state |
(10) |
10. 40 |
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same |
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(11) |
10. 40' |
1 inflected |
same |
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(12) |
10 42' |
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same |
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(13) |
10. 43; |
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same |
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(14) |
10. 44 |
1 inflected |
same |
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trace of ring on disc |
ring |
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(Walkers & Hopkins water)
N.B Perhaps by 10. 40; the plants had got accustomed to temp of room & of water
(18th 7. 30 discal & submarginal forming ring & subinflected in all these 6 specimens)
Total in these 3 sheets 14 [+] 6 [+] 13 [=] 33 [+] 141 [=] 174
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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