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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 111: B55–8r
Summary:

Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 32–5
Summary:

Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 98
Summary:

Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 159
Summary:

Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 99
Summary:

Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 100
Summary:

Information on plants requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 101
Summary:

CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.

Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:

Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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