The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].09.05-06. Drosera anglica. CUL-DAR60.1.144. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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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Sept 5' 8° 5' Drosera anglica drove knife through mid-rib, rather on one side & rather below middle, & put bit of meat with saliva at base. — Keep

Sept 3 8° 30 2 flies were put on 2 leaves Sept 5' flies put in cage — Sept 6. 8° a m. one leaf beginning to release fly── in 3 days

Sept 6th 8° leaf at tip rather obliquely & slightly incurved — Sept 7th inflected & cut side much inflected! I suppose owing to less resistance to inflection─??

Divide another leaf strictly in middle & put on fly

Keep

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