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To Hugo de Vries   6 September 1879

Summary

Perhaps movement from side to side in plants is caused by the contraction of one side, rather than the expansion of the other.

Sends seeds of Lychnis Githago: he observed the hypocotyledenous stem, not the root, contracting.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugo de Vries
Date:  6 Sept 1879
Classmark:  Artis Library (De Vries 7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12219F