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To Asa Gray   8 March 1877

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Leucosmia burnettiana is in all probability dimorphic. Thinks Gilia is truly heterostyled and Phlox subulata was, perhaps, once heterostyled. Has good evidence of heterostyly in 39 genera from 14 families.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  8 Mar 1877
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10883

To Asa Gray   19 March [1877]

Summary

Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].

Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Mar [1877]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10901

From Asa Gray   6 March 1877

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Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].

Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.

Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10880

From Asa Gray   30 March 1877

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Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10918
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