From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]1
The Manor | Llandudno
Dear Uncle Charles
Of 256 specimens of Lythrum gathered this morning from different plants, we find
94 with long pistil
95 — middle length pistil
69 — shortest pistil.
These plants were all in one large field or near it but tomorrow we will go if we can manage it in a different direction for more—2 We find it rather difficult in gathering to know what are distinct plants and what only offsets. At Criccieth & Aber we thought the different sorts usually grew in plots together mixed with a few of the others but here they are all together. We have found the Hottonia, and find the pistils of different lengths as I think you told us.3
Your affec niece | M. S. Wedgwood
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3681
- From
- Margaret Susan Wedgwood/Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Llandudno
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 64
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3681,” accessed on 11 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3681.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
