Darwin, C. R. to Rivers, Thomas
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Examined the Cytisus and forwarded to Caspary. The C. adami case "gets more and more perplexing", asks for report if Cytisus purpureus-elongatus produces any pods.
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Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
June 8
My dear Sir
I thank you most cordially for the Cytisus, after examining which I forwarded to Prof.
Caspary at Kœnigsberg; so you have killed two birds with one
act of kindness. The C. adami case gets more & more perplexing. I wish
your experiments with the buds of the Negundo had succeeded.— If you will not think me an insufferable bore, I wish you
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With many thanks | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
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- f1 5115.f1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Thomas Rivers, 6 June 1866. - +
- f2 5115.f2
See letter from Thomas Rivers, 6 June 1866. CD was interested in Robert Caspary's research on Cytisus adami (now +Laburnocytisus adami). See letter to Thomas Rivers, 27 April [1866] and n. 4. - +
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See letter from Thomas Rivers, 6 June 1866 and n. 3. CD cited Rivers on the transmission of colour from the bud of a purple-leaved hazel to a rootstock of the common green-leaved hazel in Variation 1: 395. - +
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See letter from Thomas Rivers, 6 June 1866 and n. 2. In Variation 1: 388--90, CD discussed the viability of ovules and pollen in Cytisus hybrids, and reported a case of a sterile hybrid of Cytisus purpureus and C. elongatus that had been described by Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (see Braun 1853, p. xxiii).