To J. D. Hooker [20 May 1868]1
Down
My dear Hooker
The enclosed grass is one of those sent me within the pellets of Locust dung from Natal.2 The case seems to me sufficiently curious to deserve that the name of grass shd be made out. Can you do this for me; but if a troublesome genus, the generic name wd. suffice.3 There is another much bigger kind of grass not yet in flower.—4
Yours affecty | C. Darwin
I suppose you do not care to have the plants for Kew?—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6190
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp † (by D. Oliver)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6190,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6190.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16