To Daniel Oliver 20 [April 1862]1
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Dear Oliver
Hooker says you pass daily some Oxalis acetosella.2 Will you oblige me by gathering a dozen or score of flowers from different plants, & if possible plants growing a little apart.— I find some evidence of dimorphism in the plants here, as in Primula, & much want to see plants from some other station.3 The plant does not grow here within my walking distance.— Would you send me the flowers by Post in a little tin box, with a bit of damp blotting paper.—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Dimorphic condition in Primula’: On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula, and on their remarkable sexual relations. By Charles Darwin. [Read 21 November 1861.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. [Collected papers 2: 45–63.]
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3512
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Daniel Oliver
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3512,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3512.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
