RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ph(osphate) of Lime / 8h 4 Stick with Pin. CUL-DAR60.1.113. (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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Ph of Lime

26th    8O Am    Stick with nil Pin—    All to except 3 or 4 outer rows well inflected, & yet Ph put only on single gland, I think the surrounding ones must have absorbed & transmitted— I cannot see that central ones are inflected — (Give this case) (27th    .8O    almost reexpanded) 

Keep Ch X

25th    2 on disc very near centre still inflected

26'    8O    Stick with whit wool certainly some central one inflect — added a little more Ph & saliva to several the sub-inflected to — The 4 or 5 exterior rows are not now inflected (27th 8O    same state not more inflection.) (28th    8O    reexpanding)

(2 Sticks with 2 Pins crushed some glands — sticks behind the leaves)

(White paper Head & Match for secretions)

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