RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.12.12-1878.01.26. Nicotiana glauca. CUL-DAR67.41. 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-DAR67 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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Nicotiana glauca
Dec. 12. /77/ 11˚ a.m put cleaned with tepid sponge 2 young stems & put sponge with oil-silk round them.
Dec 27' took off sponge & marked below with wool
Surfaces both decidedly brown.
Jan 25th surfaces of both stems brown, with longitudinal sinuous cracked lines, of which no trace on other parts— epidermis apparently killed & thus could not grow, & as young stems thickened, epidermis was cracked. —
Remove 26th
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