From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 89
Summary:
Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.