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To Thomas Whitelegge   16 July 1878

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

July 16— 1878.

Dear Sir

It is very kind of you to take so much trouble; but I beg you not to take any more, as I do not think it likely that there will be a new edition of my Forms of Flowers, & unless there be one, I shall not be able to use all the information which you have been so good as to send me.—1

The Stachys seems a very fine case of what I have called gyno-diœciousness.—2

Your activity & powers of observation seem very great.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Whitelegge had been sending examples of gynodioecious plants; he later published his observations in Nature, 3 October 1878, p. 588. This note was cited by CD when a second edition of Forms of flowers was published in 1880 (Forms of flowers 2d ed., p. xvii).

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