From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1866]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756
Summary:
Asks readers to examine the flowers of Oxalis bowei to observe where the summits of the branching stigmas stand with respect to the two sets of anthers. In CD’s plants the stigmas stand beneath the lower anthers, but he believes two other forms exist: long-styled and mid-styled. Would be grateful for flowers of these types so he can fertilise them and obtain seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project