RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Cohn, On the contractile tissue of plants. CUL-DAR60.2.48. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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).
Ferdinand Cohn. 1863. On the contractile tissue of plants. Annals and magazine of natural history 11, series 3: 188-202.
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Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist (3rd series) vol XI p. 188.
An abstract of Dr F Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants.
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& Nitschke for gradation of t. not Hairs as quoted by Warming
[Insectivorous plants, p. 256: "Prof. Cohn, in his interesting paper* on the movements of the stamens of certain Compositae, states that these organs, when dead, are as elastic as threads of india-rubber, and are then only half as long as they were when alive. He believes that the living protoplasm
* 'Abhand. der Schles. Gesell. für vaterl. Cultur,' 1861, Heft i. An excellent abstract of this paper is given in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' 3rd series, 1863, vol. xi. pp. 188-197.
within their cells is ordinarily in a state of expansion, but is paralysed by irritation, or may be said to suffer temporary death; the elasticity of the cell-walls then coming into play, and causing the contraction of the stamens."]
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