From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1864]1
Royal Gardens Kew
Wednesday
My dear Darwin
I send herewith enclosed 2 pitchers intertwined of Nepenthes lævis, I find that all the species climb in the same manner.2
Thanks for your capital long letter of 23d.—3 I am so glad that you have begun the “opus magnum”4
I have sent the recommendation of Gærtner to Stainton5 & backed it.
What a good thought, of Wallace for Royal Medal6 I have been in despair for a good man, & here is one to our hands.
Harvey is here & I have asked him about the desert climbing plants,7 they are species of Asclepiadeæ (Ceropegia) & of Convolvulaceae, of which all the native specimens he has are stemless, flowering at the ground, but which when grown from seed in Dublin Gardens, send up climbing stems. I have seen specimens, & do not doubt its being a very common occurrence.
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Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
Gärtner, Karl Friedrich von. 1849. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich. Mit Hinweisung auf die ähnlichen Erscheinungen im Thierreiche, ganz umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Ausgabe der von der Königlich holländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart.
Summary
Sends Nepenthes laevis.
Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.
W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4623
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 157.2: 110
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4623,” accessed on 31 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4623.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12