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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller

Date:

4 Jan 1882

Source of text:

The British Library (Loan MS 10: 58)

Summary:

On F. M. Balfour.

Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.

FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

1 Jan 1882

Source of text:

DAR 106: C19

Summary:

In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.

Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.

Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project