From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 154
Summary:
CD’s paper [on Linum] is announced for reading at the Linnean Society on 5 February.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
CD’s paper [on Linum] is announced for reading at the Linnean Society on 5 February.
Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.
Suggests CD study variation in ferns.