To Lydia Ernestine Becker [26 or 27 May 1863]
Summary
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Date: | [26 or 27 May 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Botany 7: 291–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185G |
To L. E. Becker 2 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks LEB for the Lychnis seed [see 4258], which he will plant in the hope of fertilising the little ovaria.
Comments on the two forms of Linum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Date: | 2 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | Charterhouse Archives (ACC 013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260A |
Document type
letter | (2) |
Addressee
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Correspondent
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Date
1863 | (2) |