From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 268
Summary:
Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.
Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
CD is much interested in a change in Drosera reported by GC, but "rather doubts" exclusion of insects can have caused it; would like to see the plant and suggests sending it to Down.