To Asa Gray 20 March [1880]
Down Beckenham | Kent
March 20th
Will you be so kind as to tell me whether Mr. Thompson of Ipswich is right that Ipomœa leptophylla makes a great tuber as big as a manget-wurzel.—1 A word on post-card wd suffice. Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.2
C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Summary
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12541
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Asa Gray
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MA 20 80
- Source of text
- Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12541,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12541.xml