From Francis Darwin [16 or 17 August 1873]
Summary
Gives his opinion on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [inLathyrus sylvestris].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 or 17 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 140–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9012 |
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- … on why tubes of peas split to the right of the loose stamens [in Lathyrus sylvestris ]. …
- … and n. 2. The reference is to Lathyrus sylvestris and L. maritimus . In his Handbook of …
- … under the heading ‘Everlasting pea. Lathyrus sylvestris, Linn. ’ a brief description of ‘a …
- … brush. The asymmetry of the keel in Lathyrus sylvestris and L. latifolius causes a bulge …
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … species he described was actually Lathyrus sylvestris (see letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
- … is either Lathyrus latifolius (the broad-leaved everlasting pea) or L. sylvestris (the …
From Francis Darwin [25 August 1873]
Summary
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9016 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … authors identified the everlasting pea as Lathyrus sylvestris and categorised the garden …
- … Lathyrus confirms us in thinking it is the twisting of the stigma that makes the left nectar hole bigger by the pod splitting in that side— In L pratensis the stigma is not twisted—so we expected it would grow up in the middle lifting the loose stamen up like the lid of a box as V. cracca does, but the stamen is too tight on for this so it has to go on one side or the other of it; and we find that as there is no twist it comes up just as often on one side as the other— 3 buds of wild sylvestris …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Date
| 1873 | (3) |
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
