From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24–5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025)
Summary:
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.