Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
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Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.
CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].
S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.
Heliotropism in aerial roots.
Frank Darwin’s work.
Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Sends specimens of Commelyna.
The amphicarpic habit.