To George Bentham 3 December [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 3d
My dear Sir
I write merely to thank you for your information on the apetalous flowers.—2 The case seems too exceptional to help me; & the whole order will remain my detestable enemies. I will get some Russian violets & will watch them next summer.— I have attended a little to Heartease, & have observed after the rare visits of Bees, that numbers of flowers suddenly became in a few days fertilised.3
Your’s truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2010
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2010,” accessed on 8 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2010.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
