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From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 74
Summary:

Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 75
Summary:

He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 76
Summary:

The insect-capturing Araujia has been forwarded from Portugal.

He discovers Apocynum is not in the same family, and he has misquoted [John Leonard Knapp’s Journal of a naturalist (1829)]; Apocynum captures by stamens, not stigma.

Sends seeds of Portuguese Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project