From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 and 22 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project