Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].
Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].
Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.
CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.
WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].
S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.
Heliotropism in aerial roots.
Frank Darwin’s work.
Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.
Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.
Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.
Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].
Heliotropism in roots.
Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.
Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.
Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.