From:
William Henry Leggett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: B127–8
Summary:
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Thanks DN for references.
The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.