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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 February [1878]

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Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  3 Feb [1878]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11344

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  • 12. Thiselton-Dyer’s letter of [before 3 February 1878] is incomplete, but he evidently told CD that Richard Irwin Lynch , foreman of the propagating department at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, had praised CD’s gardener, Henry Lettington , probably for his skill in raising plants of Araujia sericifera , which is native to Brazil and Peru. Lynch had been assisting CD with observations for Movement in plants ; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 . George Bentham ; …