To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1879]1
Down,| Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 9th
My dear Dyer
The tendrils are very curious; I have seen something of the kind though not so well marked. How pretty are the affinities of plants, when I glanced at the tendrils, I said that they must belong to some Cucurbitaceous plant, though I knew no more than the man in the moon what Hodgsonia was.—2 The little white transparent flakes which project from the sides of the tendrils, here & there, where they have been in contact, & which look like flakes of dry gum, are I find under the microscope cellular outgrowths.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Summary
Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12141
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 178–9)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12141,” accessed on 27 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12141.xml