RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.06.30. Greenhouse bushy Coronilla. CUL-DAR66.166v. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR66 contains notes on 'bloom'. Francis Darwin explained: "His researches into the meaning of the 'bloom,' or waxy coating found on many leaves, was one of those inquiries which remained unfinished at the time of his death. He amassed a quantity of notes on the subject". LL3: 339. See an Introduction to these folders by Christine Chua & John van Wyhe.
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June 30th 77. Southampton — Greenhouse bushy. Coronilla —
Both surfaces of leaves silvery. — It is rather of that young leaves very imperfectly silvery & somewhat wetted by immersion.— It is only the young leaves which go to sleep & the movement slight, the terminal leaflet turns a little up so as to be vertical or with lower surface obliquely towards the sky (as in clovers) & with next 2 lateral leaflets turned a little towards each other, but they do not by any means meet.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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