From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]1
Leith Hill Place, | Dorking.
Tuesday
Dear Uncle Charles
I looked at 3 or 4 bunches of oxlips this morning.
We commonly find them either in shady hedge-banks, or else in the woods, where primroses grow;— I think never in the open fields with cowslips.2
In one case there were 8 or 10 plants growing in a group (some very small), but no primrose or cowslips anywhere near (tho in a primrosy wood) The others were mostly single plants or 2 together—none with primroses or cowslips very near.—3
Yr. affte. niece L C Wedgwood
Footnotes
Bibliography
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‘Specific difference in Primula’: On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officinalis of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip. With supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids in the genus Verbascum. By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (1869): 437–54.
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4370
- From
- Lucy Caroline Wedgwood/Lucy Caroline Harrison
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- DAR 108: 171–2
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4370,” accessed on 13 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4370.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13