From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 16
Summary:
Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.