RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. at 8h 10 put 1 large old leaf & some very tender very pale leaf. CUL-DAR59.1.101. (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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27th at 8O 10' put 1 large old leaf. & one very tender very pale leaf in little cup, covered with glycerine 4 drops to 1 oz. & on 28th  11O 45. not a trace of inflection !!    F

29th. 9.. Both leaves now have tentacles recovered; the old leaf in a most conspicuous degree. — Must be exosmose or death.—

Put 2 leaves in watch-glass with pure glycerine    29th    10O 40'

(30'    8O 15. (& so it was last night) all flaccid, shrivelled up & tentacles shrunk & in all sort of irregular positions.—    Pure gly

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June 26.    11O 12'  4 large drops of glycerine to 1. oz of water    95 Black round sticks.)    F

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(Pure glycerine put on 5 glands caused by Head of Pin these in few minutes to reach the surface. 9 try Olive oil) — June 29th Repeated this with same result)

(Minute drops of the sol. of 4 dropped drops to 1 oz    sometimes acted on single glands, but not often & caused only partial inflection; & it is just possible that I may have touched glands.) 2 others have been acted on. I have no doubt acts.) Several have bent, but slowly, mixture rather weak) Jun 29th Repeated this with no success: perhaps I touched the glands before

(12O 59' 1O    3 red & yellow sticks pure glycerine 1/2 minim of 3 leaves .(3O several tentacles incurved rather irregularly)

27th 8O — gr leaves vy hispid, very little inflection of tentacles — glands which have been touched are colourless. & killed.    F

27th    8O    no inflection form the 4 drops to 1 oz of water. — Two young X → leaves with rather colourless glands, now have their on disc quite colourless.    28th. 11O 30' These 2 latter tent in same state no inflection — put on meat on all 5. Black sticks.

29th    8. 15 all now splendidly inflected over meat (N.B in 2 of these ten leaves, the tentacles which were much inflected over the meat clearly secreted more than the non-inflected

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