To J. D. Hooker 28 [September 1874]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
28
My dear H.
I shd. much like to know whence U. Amethystia comes: it has a most extraordinary bladder. U. nelumbifolia, I think you said, was from Brazil.— Will you ask Oliver to look at these 2 sp., & tell me, if he can, whether they are floating or fixed plants; I ask because I find crustaceans in bladders of both, so that if rooted they must be in very wet mud.1
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Daniel Oliver had sent CD fragments of Utricularia amethystina (Florida purple bladderwort) and U. nelumbifolia from the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see Insectivorous plants, pp. 442–3).
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9662
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 339
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9662,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9662.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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