From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
