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To Thomas Whitelegge   17 May 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

May 17— 1878

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your letter.1 I am certain that I have never met with any account of any species of Ranunculus being gynodiœcious, but I have seen it stated that they tend to be diœcious, probably in consequence of such plants as you have been so good as to send me.

Should I print a new Edit. of my last book, I will introduce on your authority this case.—2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

2
In Forms of flowers 2d ed., p. ix, CD referred to a note by Whitelegge in Nature, 3 October 1878, p. 588, that mentioned Ranunculus acris and other species as gynodioecious (see also letter from Thomas Whitelegge, 16 May 1878 and n. 1).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11515,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11515