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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[7 November 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 34
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Darwin Family Letters
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Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.