From L. C. Harrison to Emma Darwin [before 1 July 1874]1
My Father looked out Pinguicula in Sowerby—2 Very likely Uncle Charles has seen the following passage, but I send it for the chance.
“Dr Johnson has observed a kind of sensibility in the flower stalks, which bend backwards if rudely handled, & that the leaves bend back & conceal the root when gathered: this latter action must have been observed in many plants by persons in the habit of transplanting, as in Primula & Drosera.”
“The leaves act like rennet upon milk: no animals care to eat them”
I am afraid it does not grow here.—
Footnotes
Summary
Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9525
- From
- Lucy Caroline Wedgwood/Lucy Caroline Harrison
- To
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 138
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9525,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9525.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22