From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 12
Summary:
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.