From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 108
Summary:
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.