From Lydia Ernestine Becker 18 May 1863
Miss Becker presents her compliments to Mr. Darwin and takes the liberty of sending him the enclosed flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica common in the woods here but which she has not observed elsewhere.1 It has bisexual flowers and large dark purple anthers which give the plant a very striking handsome appearance. The same conspicuous anthers occur in flowers bearing stamens only of which one is sent. Miss Becker does not know whether such a variety as this would be interesting to Mr. Darwin, if not she must apologise for having troubled him.
Altham | Accrington | Lancashire
May 18th. 1863.
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Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Index Kewensis: Index Kewensis: plantarum phanerogamarum, nomina et synonyma omnium generum et specierum … nomine recepto auctore patria unicuique plantae subjectis. 4 vols., and 20 supplements. Compiled by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1893–1996.
Summary
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4170
- From
- Lydia Ernestine Becker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Altham
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 108
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4170,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4170.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
