Darwin, C. R. to Oliver, Daniel
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Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.
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Case of aestival flowers is very curious.
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Down. | Bromley. | Kent. | S.E.
April. 24
Dear Oliver.
Many thanks for Oxalis; of 38 flowers sent 24 are long-styled & 14 short-styled, just as in the flowers here; but whether this depends on mere useless variability or on useful dimorphism, I suspect experiment will alone show: I have got plants in pots for next spring.
I am quite aware the other æstival flower is a very much more curious case. I
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Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
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The year is established by the relationship to the letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 April 1862. - +
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See letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [April 1862], and letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 April 1862.