From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Virginius Dabney
Date:
20 Oct 1878
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 63 MSS 3082-a)
Summary:
CD is puzzled by VD’s supposed hybrid tomato. If a hybrid, it would have to result from the "direct action of the pollen of a distinct species in the mother plant". CD believes this sort of inheritance occurs in varieties (though some botanists disagree), but not for species. Suggests "bud-variation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project