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DCP-LETT-11494

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 91
Summary:

Sends Ledum, the nectar of which catches many insects.

Describes his Primula varieties.

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DCP-LETT-11495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/29)
Summary:

Has received Ledum with its captured flies.

"At present I care for nothing in this wide world except the biology of seedling plants."

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/30)
Summary:

Doubts Ledum warrants investigation. Glands probably serve only to protect the flowers against crawling insects, which would not cross-fertilise them.

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