From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [6 June 1864]1
Monday
My dear Uncle Charles
I cannot give a very satisfactory answer, as many of the flowers have shed their seeds, but it is really quite easy to tell by the husk if there have been any:2 1st. They are seeding pretty freely, sometimes 6 or 7 fl. with seed to a head, I should think about half the flowers produce seeds. 2ndly. Far the greatest number have only one seed, but several have two and one I saw wh had had 33
How curious it looks seeing the teeth of this calyx carefully holding the seed in I wonder why it does it—
Mamma4 is coming home today, she has been very unwell but I hope is better now—
Ever your affte. niece and lieutenant | Lucy C Wedgwood
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4523
- From
- Lucy Caroline Wedgwood/Lucy Caroline Harrison
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 110: A60–1
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp ††
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4523,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4523.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12