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From:
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 189
Summary:

Inquires whether insectivorous habit in plants supplements or replaces the normal method of plant nutrition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick
Date:
6 Mar 1876
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 61 MSS 3361-a)
Summary:

CD came to believe Drosera drew its nourishment from insects because it grows where no other plants survive. Doubts glands are modified stomata.

Suggests works by Grönland and Trécul.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project