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DCP-LETT-10930

From:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B10–11
Summary:

Sends specimens of Saxifraga tridactylites with insects caught by it. Asks if colour of leaves attracts insects.

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DCP-LETT-10931

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
16 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43)
Summary:

Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.

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