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.
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.