From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick
Date:
6 Mar 1876
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 61 MSS 3361-a)
Summary:
CD came to believe Drosera drew its nourishment from insects because it grows where no other plants survive. Doubts glands are modified stomata.
Suggests works by Grönland and Trécul.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project