RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1874-1875]. Draft of Insectivorous plants. CUL-DAR59.1.55r. 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).
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after 24h inflected. With respect to the period of reexpansion, nothing can be more variable. The inflected tentacles of the leaves immersed both in water & in the solutions sometimes begin to reexpand after from 6h to 8h have elapsed ; but as a general rule they remain much longer inflected in the solution than in water.
From these remarks on the general behaviour the [text excised] in water it may at first appear
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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