From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 June 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435)
Summary:
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Asks what proportion of leaves of Pinguicula have insects adhering to them. Also, whether seeds of any plants ever adhere to the leaves, and in what situations does P. vulgaris grow.
Sends her observations on Dionaea capturing insects. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 311–12.]