To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 June 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 26 1874
My dear Mr Dyer
Your letter will be of much use to me, & it is very good of you, busy as you are, to write to me at such length.1 Thanks for the heath seeds. I spoke about exalbuminous seeds merely like a parrot without any definite understanding.2 I will write to Mr Ralfs.3
Will you ask Hooker whether he has kept a few references which I sent him about plants catching insects. One of these related to the bladders of Utricularia, & I shd be very glad to see it again.4 I have been writing to several quarters for Utricularia: I suppose you have no species at Kew. By the way Hooker thought he cd get me another plant of Drosophyllum.5
My daughter writes from Wales that the little glandular leaves are from the “bog-heath”, whatever this means; she finds a great many of these little leaves on Pinguicola.6
She has found 4 additional seeds on the leaves. My son & I are trying exts. with milk: what Linneus says about the Laplanders using Ping. to curdle milk is well known & the same plan used in Wales.7
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1737. Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale collectas in itinere. Amsterdam: Salomon Schouten.
Summary
Thanks for letter and seeds.
Asks that Hooker return references about plants eating insects.
Discusses Pinguicula.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9515
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 14–15)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9515,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9515.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22