From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 97–8
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
