To W. D. Fox 18 June 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 18. 1874
My dear Fox
I know that you observe all natural objects. I am in great want of a living plant of Utricularia. Have you ever seen it in clear ditches in the I. of Wight? If so, could you send me a plant (with a root if it has one) packed in damp moss in a tin box. I enclose habitats from Broomfield;1 but know not whether they are within a drive from you— I do not care about the flowers. I once saw the plant near Eastbourne.
Have you ever met with Pinguicola Lusitanica in the I. of Wight? If you could find it, I wd ask you to observe a point about it whilst in a state of nature; & indeed I shd like to see a specimen.2 I have been working at some very interesting points in P. vulgaris—3
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bromfield, William Arnold. 1856. Flora Vectensis: being a systematic description of the phænogamous or flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight. Edited by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Bell Salter. London: William Pamplin.
Summary
Asks for living plant of Utricularia and information on Pinguicula lusitanica. Gives notes on habitats.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9499
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9499,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9499.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22