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To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … s brother, Josiah Wedgwood III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) …
- … Wedgwood III (see n. 13, below). CD had asked Hooker to examine the stigma of Leschenaultia biloba (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 May [1862] ), and had apparently sent him specimens at Hooker’s request (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Frances Harriet Hooker’s letter to Emma Darwin …
