From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 108
Summary:
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 106
Summary:
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23–4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 107
Summary:
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 109
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
