From William Robinson 19 November 1864
Roy. Bot. Gardens | Regents Park
Novem 19th. 64
C. Darwin Esq
Sir.
The climbing plant you noticed here1 during my absence & wished to learn the name of, is I believe a species of Paullinia a probably P. barbarense or curassavica 2
We had it from the West Indies.
I am Sir | Yours very respectfully | Wm. Robinson
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Index Kewensis: Index Kewensis: plantarum phanerogamarum, nomina et synonyma omnium generum et specierum … nomine recepto auctore patria unicuique plantae subjectis. 4 vols., and 20 supplements. Compiled by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1893–1996.
Summary
Identifies a climbing plant that CD saw at the Society’s gardens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4675
- From
- William Robinson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Royal Botanic Society
- Source of text
- DAR 157.2: 114
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4675,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4675.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12