From W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
S.ton
Friday
My Dear Father,
I am sorry to say you have misunderstood my letter,1 I wrote in a great hurry & was afraid it was not quite clear. In the diagrams of the long styled, each separate drawing is from the anther of a different plant; and all I meant was, that XX looked so large that I was alarmed whether it was not a short styled anther after all, & that I had made a blunder; so I took it & compared it with what I knew to be Long styled anthers’ pollen, & I found them both the same, proving that it was a long styled as I had intended.2
When I said X & XX did not come from same flower, all I meant was that out of the 5 Long styled anthers I drew, 2 separate plants had the long anthers. I will get some pulmonaria and see about the anthers, whether the larger anthers run through whole plants or whether each plant has a large one—3
I have not yet separated the Menyanthes into bundles & counted the proportion, but I will.4
I will also see about marking Menyanthes
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
Clarifies his letter of 18 May [4500].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4504
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Postmark
- MY 20 64
- Source of text
- DAR 110: A82, A87–8
- Physical description
- inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4504,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4504.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12