From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?