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