From W. D. Fox 3 April [1877]1
Broadlands, | Sandown, I.W.
Ap 3
My dear Darwin
It is much easier to ask questions than answer them. “Pulmonaria” does not exactly answer either of your propositions. It does not “look up to the sky nor down to the ground”.2
After looking at it several times I brought Mrs Fox3 & held a council or Inquest upon the body. It is agreed that P: angustifolia looks up, but not very much up.4 “P. grandiflora” (as Sir P Egertons Gardener gave it me) but which I never can see any differences between it & the broader leaved varieties (this has a bit of tape tied round it.) does not look quite so much up.5
But decidedly neither look “down to Earth”.
These lines are about the angle, upwards decidedly—
In haste yours very truly | W D Fox
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10923
- From
- William Darwin Fox
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Sandown
- Source of text
- DAR 110: B62
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10923,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10923.xml