To ? [1860–82?]1
I am almost certain that it is Menispermum Canadense2
C. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is conjectured on the assumption that few people would have asked CD for botanical identifications before he became widely known with the publication of Origin in 1859; but it may have been earlier.
Menispermum canadense is the Canadian or common moonseed.
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13875
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Glenbow Museum
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13875,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13875.xml
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