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To Friedrich Ludwig   1 August 1877

Down Beckenham Kent

Aug 1. 1877

Dear Sir,

I am very much obliged to you for your clear account of the cleistogamic flowers of Collomia, together with the dried flowers.1 The case seems to me a very striking and interesting one.

I remain, dear Sir, | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
Ludwig had sent CD his description of cleistogamic flowers of Collomia grandiflora (large-flowered mountain trumpet or phlox) from the Verhandlungen des botanischen Vereins für die Provinz Brandenburg (Ludwig 1876). CD’s annotated copy of Ludwig’s description is in DAR 133.19: 6. CD added a reference to Ludwig 1876 in the preface to Forms of flowers 2d ed., p. x.

Bibliography

Forms of flowers 2d ed.: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1876. Kleistogamische Blüthen und Verbreitung der Samen der Collomia grandiflora. [Read 25 August 1876.] Verhandlungen des botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg 18 (1875–6): 117–19.

Summary

Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11087
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Friedrich Ludwig
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Physical description
LS 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11087,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11087.xml

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