Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
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Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
Reports on state of family’s health.
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
Discusses dimorphic plants.
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Experiment instructions.
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Describes difference between Pulmonaria flowers; wishes to know whether it is general.
Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Polymorphism in Rhamnus.
Polymorphic flowers of Rhamnus [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
Cuttings have arrived. Different flower forms [in Rhamnus?].