From:
Frederick Currey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 305
Summary:
Offers rare Irish orchid (Spiranthes).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Offers rare Irish orchid (Spiranthes).
G. B. Wollaston [in "British Orchideae", Phytologist n.s. 1 (1855–6): 225–7] says Ophrys arachnites is a hybrid, which contradicts CD, who says it is a new species.