From Daniel Oliver 2 January 1875
Royal Gardens Kew
2 Jan. 1875.
My dear Mr Darwin
The generic name Genlisea must of course be maintained for the Utricularioid plants with 5-merous calyx of which we have one species from So. Africa & a few from Brazil. Those of which I sent you fragments under that name you keep as Genlisea.1 From your letter this morning I take it you have already seen Warming’s paper on Utricularia & Genlisea2
Ever very sincerely with all best N. Year wishes,— | Yours D. Oliver
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–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Warming, Eugenius. 1874. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Lentibulariaceæ. I. Genlisea ornata Mart. (Hertil tab. V og VI). II. Spiringen af Fröene hos Utricularia vulgaris. (Hertil tab. VII). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn (1874, Nr. 3–7): 33–58. (Resumé in French, pp. 8–15.)
Summary
The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9796
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 115
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9796,” accessed on 10 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9796.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23