From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113
Summary:
Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.
Has received six copies of Orchids.