To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 August 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Aug 7. 1877
My dear Dyer,
You told me that after Mr Lynch’s return, my asking for plants would not be very troublesome.1
By any strange chance have you a Robinia pseudoacacia in a pot; or so small a plant that it could be potted for me? A nurseryman potted a plant about 3 feet high for me, & it died at once.2 You know that the leaflets depress themselves a little if a branch is shaken for a minute or two. Now if you have any other species behaving in the same way, it would do equally well for my purpose.
I have received Schrankia from Mr Ellacombe; it was not potted, but to my surprise has recovered. It is to be forwarded afterwards to Kew.3
If Mr Lynch can find any other plant living near the sea with bloom on its leaves I should be very glad of it4
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11094
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 80–1)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11094,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11094.xml