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
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Sends her observations on Dionaea capturing insects. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 311–12.]
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.