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From:
James Allen (Allen) Harker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 101
Summary:

Has observed rare instances of Ophrys apifera with "cut labellum". Suggests it was done by large dragonfly mistaking the flower for a fly visiting a flower. Stimulated to study Ophrys by Orchids.

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