From Daniel Oliver 13 September 1862
Royal Gardens Kew
13. IX. 1862
My dear Sir
I have given directions about saving seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.1
Your Diagram of L. Salicaria is very remarkable2 I think it will be a very serious labour & difficult too satisfactorily to settle such a complication.
I wonder did you ever think about Compositae3
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Rolle is new to me,—the name I mean.—4 Bolle is a botanist who has worked on Atlantic Island botany.5
Pray excuse the dirty blot.— | Sincerely yours | Danl. Oliver.
Charles Darwin Esq
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Rolle, Friedrich. 1863. Chs. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten im Pflanzen- und Thierreich in ihrer Anwendung auf die Schöpfungsgeschichte. Frankfurt: J. C. Hermann.
Taxonomic literature: Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. By Frans A. Stafleu and Richard S. Cowan. 2d edition. 7 vols. Utrecht, Netherlands: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema. The Hague, Netherlands: W. Junk. 1976–88.
Summary
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3718
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 111 (ser. 2): 60
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3718,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3718.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10