From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 110
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses dimorphic plants.
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Discusses dimorphism in linum and primula. Describes death of Mrs. Ashworth.
Sends observations on [Anchusa] plants from Isle of Wight.
Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.
Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.