Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
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Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Movements in Oxalis.
Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].
Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.
Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.
Wants a Cassia identified
and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.
Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.
Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.
Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.
Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.
Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.
Thanks for plants
and case of sleeping Crotalaria.
"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".
Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.
Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.
Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.
Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.
Wants a plant identified;
would like some cotton seeds.
Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.