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DCP-LETT-4068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
31 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 44 (EH 88206027)
Summary:

Asks DO to give enclosed [letter?] from John Scott to Hooker.

JS’s work on orchid self-sterility; Acropera has 371250 seeds in one capsule.

Wishes something could be done for Scott.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023)
Summary:

Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.

Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042)
Summary:

Thanks for information on Tecoma.

Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.

CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?

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