RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Citrate of Strychnine 1 gr to 1 oz. CUL-DAR59.1.100. (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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July 29' 10O 50'
(12) Citrate of Strychnia 1 gr to 1 oz
11O 33' a vy few inflected
12O glands like porcelain
(12O 50', glands half-blackened (after 2O) & half dirty white opake — outer discals & some inner marginals inflected
(2O 48', after 4O all but 19 tents more or less inflected, most of them closely; put in pure water) This shows that there can be inflection after glands discoloured.
(30' 8O 25' all but 26 inflected.)
(July 31 .11O 15' in same state. glands evidently killed & white, but pedicels of tent still purple.)
(13) do do do
(11O 33' several inflected)
12O glands like porcelain & half black
(12O 50;, about 1/3 of tent inflected; after 2O
(2O 50' aft 4O about 32 tent more inflected, put in C. of Am 1 gr to 1 oz
(5O 25' lamina inflected, glands blackened)
(July 30' 8O 25, all but 5 inflected) so C. of Ammonia has acted: plenty of seg in tentacles, whether caused by Am or Starch, I do not know
(14) Citrate of Strichnine 2 gr to 1 oz 10O. 54'
11O 34' [+] 6 [=] 40 all inflected nil tent. inflected & laminanil quit doubled up
(2O. 53'. same state , put in pure water)
(July 30' 8O 40' same state); tentacles & glands all colourless; all protoplasm aggregated into colourless balls glands & tentacles very tender & easily crushed — in some places a few purple spheres — the spheres sometime consist of very minute ones in chain, generally of fair-sized colourless ones, I cannot doubt leaf dead —
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(17) 29th 11O Glycerine 4 drop to 1 oz
(11O 35' /O/) (1O, O)(3O ie. aft 4O p 7 or 8 over pedicel inflected gave it C. of Am 1 gr to 1 oz
(5O. 25' glands blackened, some inflection)(July 30', 8O 45' dead)
(18) do do. do
(11O 35' /O/) (1O O)(3O, O)
July 30' 8O 45' glands darkened — segregation very little inflection
C. of S
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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