RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Club-headed. CUL-DAR60.2.68. 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).


p 54

Club-headed. (I may add that the cells of of in the short pedicels of the short tentacles on the central disc (Central Tentacles) contain green, instead of purple fluid; but & that this likewise undergoes segregation into continually changing masses of greenish protoplasm.)

I occasionally, though rarely saw after the onset of segregation another phenomenon within the cells of the pedicels of the marginal tentacles, after the segregation of their contents, namely a perfectly distinct circulation of the colourless contained fluid. Small & variously


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