From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1876–7]
Source of text:
DAR 109: B119
Summary:
Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;
discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.