From W. E. Darwin 21 June [1866]1
Southton
June 21
My Dear Father,
I send 2 females with outlines of my sketches, the 4 females outlined are from 4 different trees.2
I have all particulars down about them if you care for them.
I should it say it certainly was case of dimorphic become diœcious3
Broomfield says “dioecious said to be polygamous”.4

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Footnotes
Bibliography
Bromfield, William Arnold. 1856. Flora Vectensis: being a systematic description of the phænogamous or flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight. Edited by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Bell Salter. London: William Pamplin.
Summary
"It [Rhamnus catharticus?] is certainly a case of dimorphic become dioecious."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5129
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- DAR 109: A80
- Physical description
- AL 2pp inc †, sketch †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5129,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5129.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14