From J. D. Hooker [before 6 January 1868?]1
In various Balanophoræ, especially Balanophora itself, the ♂ perianth is very well developed & conspicuous, the ♀ totally absent.—2 Ditto in Myriophyllum & Garrya—3 I cannot recollect other cases, nor any of the converse— I have asked Oliver & Berkeley—but not Bentham yet.4 ⟨ ⟩
⟨ ⟩ the first & only book he has ever spontaneously even looked at.
Lubbock spent last night with us, he is as nice as ever.—5
Ever aff yrs | J D Hooker
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Bailey, Liberty Hyde and Bailey, Ethel Zoe. 1976. Hortus third: a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada. Revised and expanded by the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Discusses Balanophora with conspicuous male flowers and absent female perianth.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5789
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 47: 194
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5789,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5789.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16