From John Price 10 September 1874
Watergate St. | Chester
Sept 10. 1874
My daur.1 remembers with me that U. vulgaris did float, at any rate, before the bladders were nudocularly visible. I have seen one, out of dozens, giving out air rapidly, in minute bubbles, for hours2
J. P.
The squashed U. minor was sent to show good will.3
J. P.
The last ought to be good I can not get U. vulgaris now.
Footnotes
Price’s daughter was Mary E. Price.
Price had previously written about bubbles emitted from Utricularia vulgaris (common bladderwort; see letter from John Price, [c. 27 July 1874]). In Insectivorous plants, pp. 397–8 and 404, CD remarked that the plants generally floated near the surface of the water and that the bladders, though often containing air bubbles, did not serve as floats. Nudocularly: with the bare eyes; a coinage of Price’s own.
CD had asked Price to send more specimens of Utricularia minor (lesser bladderwort) in his letter of 28 July [1874].
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9631
- From
- John Price
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Chester
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 90
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9631,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9631.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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