To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 [June 1874]
Very many thanks for letter about erica tetralix— My daughter in N. Wales says the miniature sycamore leaf is that of bog-pippernel.1
In Haste. | Ch. Darwin
Down. 27th
Footnotes
The letter from CD’s prospective daughter-in-law, Amy Ruck, identifying as bog pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) some of the small leaves that she had sent him stuck to specimens of Pinguicula (butterwort) has not been found; for Thiselton-Dyer’s identification of others as Erica tetralix (cross-leaved heath), see the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 June 1874.
Summary
Thanks for letter on Erica tetralix.
Identification of leaves digested by Pinguicula.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9566
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JU 28 74
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 18)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9566,” accessed on 30 November 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9566.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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