RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Draft of Insectivorous plants, folio 3. CUL-DAR60.2.108r. 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).

The text of the draft corresponds in part to Insectivorous plants, p. 399.


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& which I will call the window. It is seated lies in a depression, that or is surrounded by a rim. This rim bears externally on each side from long multicellular spines; so that these window is almost together with those borne by the antennæ almost surround the window. (a)

[line in pencil illeg]

(The window itself, though formed of numerous cells, is is highly transparent: it is extremely flexible, & at the same time elastic. It is attached on each side to the lower part of the rim; [line in pencil illeg] but the posterior margin is free (i.e. towards the footstalk) is free & there or unattached. The valve window commences at a line joining the two antennae, & from its change & which bears the where there is the false appearance of forming the presence of a hinge. It slopes inwards towards the inside of the bladder, posterior part of the rim, [line in pencil illeg] being deeper towards the posterior part where the rim is deeper & where the window terminates in a free margin. The surface of the window is not flat, though transversely convex. but this could not be represented in the drawing fig…)

 


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