To J. D. Hooker 28 [September 1874]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
28
My dear H.
I shd. much like to know whence U. Amethystia comes: it has a most extraordinary bladder. U. nelumbifolia, I think you said, was from Brazil.— Will you ask Oliver to look at these 2 sp., & tell me, if he can, whether they are floating or fixed plants; I ask because I find crustaceans in bladders of both, so that if rooted they must be in very wet mud.1
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9662
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 339
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9662,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9662.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22