From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project