Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
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Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.
Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.
Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
Confirmation of CD’s idea: AG planted seeds Ipomœa pandurata. One seed has come up and its germination is same as of I. leptophylla.
Information about Ipomœa jalapa.
Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.
AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].
Thanks for AG’s reviews [of Movement in plants] in the Journal and Nation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245–9 and Nation 32 (1881): 17–18], especially for AG’s comment about Frank Darwin.
Leaves Kew the next day for three or four months of travel.