From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 108
Summary:
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 106
Summary:
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23–4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 107
Summary:
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
[26 or 27 May 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Botany 7: 291–2
Summary:
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 109
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 110
Summary:
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 111
Summary:
Has found seeds produced by an hermaphroditic Lychnis and will send them. On structural obstacles to fertilisation of hermaphrodite Lychnis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
2 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Charterhouse Archives (ACC 013)
Summary:
Thanks LEB for the Lychnis seed [see 4258], which he will plant in the hope of fertilising the little ovaria.
Comments on the two forms of Linum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project