RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1874-1875]. Draft of Insectivorous plants. CUL-DAR60.2.65. 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. 237.
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I found a small fly still alive naturally caught sticking by its feet above to the glands of the short hairs tentacles, roots on the extreme left side of the central disc of a leaf. The longer hairs on this side alone slowly closed inwards caught & killed the fly & the edge of that side alone became inflected;) but afterwards, in about 24 (nearly all) the hairs on the right-hand side, from sympathy, slowly closed in; but finding there nothing close to seize, in 15 hours they reexpanded, whereas the hairs on left side & they remained thus laterally inflected clasped over the fly for many several days.)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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