From:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4
Summary:
Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].
Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project