From George Bentham 29 November 1861
Royal Gardens Kew
Nov 29/61
My dear Darwin
The Oxalis pairs distinguished on account of the proportion of the stamens and styles, and which have nevertheless been supposed to belong to one species are according to Zuccarini
O. fulgida and rubella
O. macrostylis and tubiflora
O laburnifolia and sanguinea
O. canescens and secunda
O. gracilis and reclinata
O. cuneata and cuneifolia
(Zuccar. Nachtr. Amer. Oxal. p. 19)1 and I believe there are several others2
Yours very sincerely | George Bentham
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Zuccarini, Joseph Gerhard. 1831. Nachtrag zu Monographie der amerikanischen Oxalis- arten. Munich.
Summary
Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3332
- From
- George Bentham
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3332,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3332.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
