To J. D. Hooker 24 [February 1864]
Down
24th
My dear Hooker.—
Do not hate me much— Can you spare me a Smilax with tendrils— You did give me S. aspera (var with mottled leaves) & I failed quite in making out action of tendrils, & this makes me unhappy, for as I now understand Gloriosa, this genus of Smilax alone has wholly beaten me—1 Enquire whether a young plant cd. be spared & if so, when the frost is gone, send it to care of “Down Postman” “per Rail Bromley Kent”2 & again I say do not hate me—
C. D.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Asks for a Smilax to study movement.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4414
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 222
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4414,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4414.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
