To J. S. Henslow 14 October [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Oct. 14th
My dear Henslow
It is a great shame to trouble you about such trifles; but your Myosotis is beginning to sport under my treatment;2 & I want to know whether it is not an odd thing some of the calyces, (as the one separate one) having 6 nuts.— Some twigs produce green flowers, with the nuts oddly elongated; of which I send a little twig, I do not send more, as I want to save the monstrous seeds.— The shortest scrap in answer anytime wd much oblige me.
Most truly yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
JSH’s Myosotis is beginning to sport. Asks whether some features are not odd.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2153
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Stevens Henslow
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 93: A119
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2153,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2153.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
