From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 June or 3 July] 1856
Source of text:
DAR 104: 197
Summary:
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project