To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 October 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct 22 1875
My dear Dyer
As you seem interested about the Paritium, I have hunted for & found Dr King’s M.S., which need not be returned.1 Please to thank Hooker for his note; why I called the plant Cistus instead of Hibiscus, I cannot conceive, it was like my writing to you about Marantaceæ instead of Melastomaceæ.2
As it appears from your former note. that Imant: cyrtanthiflorum is a hybrid, can you let me have Clivia nobilis, as this wd. be much better for me for the cross.3 I could return all these bulbs if required, after they have flowered & I have crossed them.
That is an extraordinary fact which you tell me about the leaves of insular plants.4 With many thanks | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
King, George. 1875. Note on a sport in Paritium tricuspe, G. Don. [Read 16 December 1875.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 15 (1875–7): 101–3.
Summary
Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].
Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10210
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10210,” accessed on 27 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10210.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
