From M. T. Masters [13 December 1877]
From the Editors, Gardeners’ Chronicle Office, | 41, Wellington Street, Strand, W. C.
187
Cotyledon (§ Echveria) Stolonifera
J Baker1
M. T. M.
CD annotations
Top of letter: ‘This is the so-called Greenhouse sedum’ pencil2
Footnotes
Masters told CD that he would ask John Gilbert Baker to confirm the identification of a specimen that CD had sent; Masters followed Baker in regarding Echeveria as a subgenus of Cotyledon (see letter from M. T. Masters, [before 13 December 1877] and nn. 3 and 4). Echeveria stolonifera is the name CD used when referring to this species in Movement in plants, p. 237.
Sedum is another genus in the family Crassulaceae.
Bibliography
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Summary
Sends the name of a plant: Cotyledon stolonifera.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11279
- From
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Gardeners’ Chronicle
- Postmark
- DE 13 77
- Source of text
- DAR 68: 6
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11279,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11279.xml
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