From John Murray [1 July – 23 August 1862]
Summary
Account of Orchids.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 July – 23 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 525 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635F |
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
