From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]1
Dear Wm
Papa is very much obliged for the Meneanthes which he is very glad to see—especially the drawings2 which make him still more wish to have plants than he did before, but he does not see how.3
No Photo came4 | yours E. D.
Boys come tomorrow.5
I suppose you could not—
The size of Anthers seems to me in the 2 forms of Menyanthes to be very variable.6 but my head is too weak to look much— It is a splendid case of Dimorphism— The short-styled Menyanthes is fertile, I know, with own pollen, like the short-styled Pulmonaria with own pollen7
Footnotes
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3366
- From
- Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 97: A7
- Physical description
- 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3366,” accessed on 19 February 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-3366
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12