RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The glands on the central disc of all six leaves was much injured & apparently killed. CUL-DAR61.107. 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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The glands on the central disc of all six leaves were much injured & app apparently killed; hence so that the salt acts as a local poison; but the tentacles which had not been inflected & had not themselves received any of the solution were quite uninjured, so that the poison, as in the case of Hydrocyanic acid, does not seem to spread. The three leaves which had their tentacles more or less inflected, remained in the same state for three days, but were not observed after this period.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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