To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sept 8th
My dear Hooker
You are very good about Dionæa. Lady Dorothy writes most civilly, but has no plants.2 I have only a few observations which I want to make. The Kew plants have never well recovered their journey, but I am nursing them to the best of my power.3
I am very anxious when you come here to show you some structural points in Utricularia & get your judgment on them. I have spent full 3 weeks on this plant, but have made out but little in proportion. It cannot digest, but certainly absorbs the products of decay, whether only ammonia or other matter I am not sure.—
I fear there is no chance of your being able to send me a few bladders of the epiphytic Utricularia; I shd. excessively like to examine them.4
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Do come here.—
You were a good Doctor about Acacia Farnesiana—. it is now growing well, as is Mimosa albida—!5
Lady Dorothy has lent me a magnificent plant of Drosera dichotoma.—6
Footnotes
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9629
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 334–335
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9629,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9629.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22