Informs CD of possible dimorphism of Epilobium angustifolium.
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Informs CD of possible dimorphism of Epilobium angustifolium.
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.
Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Gives a reference to a paper.
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Encloses memorandum on tendrils. Nature of tendrils in Modecca.
Observations on climbing species of Tacoma. [Tecoma!?]
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Thanks for photograph.
Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.