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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 [Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 46
Summary:

Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

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Darwin Correspondence Project