From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 184
Summary:
Encloses letter and sketch from O. N. Rood on pointed ears.
Reports observations on Sarracenia variolaris. A correspondent finds that the fluid in the pitchers is anaesthetic and that a sweet trail runs down the plant, nearly to the ground, to lure up ants.
Encloses two articles on insectivorous plants [Nation 18 (1874): 216–17, 232–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
