RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. A leaf was immersed in a solution of two grains of this salt pure Carbonate of Potash in one ounce of water. CUL-DAR61.103. 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: 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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(a leaf was immersed in a solution of two grains of this salt pure Carbonate of Potash in one ounce of water, in order to observe its power in inducing segregation.

It acted in nearly the same manner, at as the carbonate of soda, but rather more energetically.

After 1° had elapsed, spherical, masses of brown pretty matter had aggregated segregated themselves in in water the cells beneath the oval & elongated glands; & after 2° 30' these were became were numerous but [2 words illeg] in appearance thus produced by carbonate of ammonia. Before this period had elapsed the exterior & terminal cells of some of the glands themselves had become almost empty, the brown matter being having aggregated collected in the more central cells.


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