From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 82
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project