From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 8–9)
Summary:
Discusses effects of water on movement of insectivorous plants.
Has just found that Pinguicula can digest albumen.
Asa Gray writes that Sarracenia secretes trail of fluid to attract insects [see 9455].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project