RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Pinguicula. CUL-DAR59.1.116. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. 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).
Pinguicula is a genus of carnivorous plants known as butterworts. These notes are for Darwin, C. R. 1875. Insectivorous plants. London: John Murray. (F1217)
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Pinguicula
Leaves when young, yet but with the glands secreting stand obliquely upwards & are rather deeply concave, as they grow old they become reflexed & flat or r convex on the upper surface (& when plant pulled up, the leaves curl greatly backwards. Each plant bears several leaves, & full-sized ones are about 1 1/2 inch long & 3/4 in width & moderately thick — They form a rosette ly on the ground, about 4 inches across.
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