From H. C. Watson 14 June [1857]1
My dear Sir
Looking for something else, I stumbled on the passage extracted on preceding page. It seems to meet a query you some time ago addressed to me respecting the Limosella & Subularia, to which I was able to reply from personal observation only in respect to the former.—2
Very truly | Hewett C. Watson Thames Ditton June 14th
To C. Darwin | Esqe
[Enclosure]
9th. February 1843
Professor Graham read an account of a Botl. Excursion in Ross-shire during August, 1842.3
The party left Edinburgh on 21st. August, &c - - - - -
“The season having been remarkably dry, all the lakes were far below their usual level, & in consequence such plants as Lobelia Dortmanna, Subularia aquatica, &c. were seen in flower and fruit on dry ground”— Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vol. 1, p. 201.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Sends a reference to Subularia which bears on a query CD made some time ago [see 2002]. Subularia was seen to flower in the air in a remarkably dry season.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2106
- From
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Thames Ditton
- Source of text
- DAR 207: 20
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2106,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2106.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
