From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Royal Gardens Kew
July 15/74.
Dear Darwin
The big Utricularia is not in a state for sending this weather. I will try to get a small plant with good jugs for you1
What can be the meaning of the appendages to the tips of the leaflets of enclosed Acacia Mimosa which bears huge spines like what Belt describes as harboring protective ants.2
Lychnis viscaria is over.
I will send Marsilea.3
I have put 4 Peas 12 Mustard & 12 Cabbage seeds into 5 pitchers. ditto into a tube of distilled water, ditto into a tube of Nepenthes water.4
I am at fibrin today.5 Michael Foster suggests that coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased not digestive symptom—& advises my trying Effect of Citric acid in pitchers.
Young Balfour6 will spend the day here.
I hope you are better & shall be anxious to hear.7
Ever yours | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Summary
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9548
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 206–7
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9548,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9548.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22