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F1583
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Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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fraxinella, fertilisation by bees, 54, 56 Diel, Pear grafts to apple, but not reciprocally, 419 n 3 Digitalis: Conversion, 127; K lreuter's crosses, 412; May be fertilised after trans-planting, 82; Reciprocal crosses not identical, 414 n 3; Visited by insect, 57 Dionaea (Venus' fly-trap), insect trap, 382 Diptera: Fertilise flowers, 55, 64, 66, 68; Larval stage not seen in some, 574; Rapid rate of increase, 207 Divergence and Diversification: Fossils of Silurian and Eocene, 247; Insects in Madeira, 231
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F1767
Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1874. [Irritability of Pinguicula]. Gardeners' Chronicle no. 2 (4 July): 15.
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of flowers by insects. Only lately, through the kindness of Dr. ASA GRAY,2 we have had occasion to lay before our readers the curious arrangements by which Droseras and Sarracenias obtain some at least of their nourishment by entrapping and digesting insects. Dr. SANDERSON3 has shown us how the movement of the leaves of Venus' Fly-trap Dionæa is accompanied by electrical phenomena, as in the case of the muscles of animals. One of the most curious illustrations yet made known, showing the
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transmission of the motor impulse and mechanism of the movements Re-expansion of the lobes. THIS plant, commonly called Venus' fly-trap, from the rapidity and force of its movements, is one of the most wonderful in the world.* It is a member of the small family of the Droseraceae, and is found only in the eastern part of North Carolina, growing in damp situations. The roots are small; those of a moderately fine plant which I examined consisted of two branches about 1 inch in length, springing from a
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transmission of the motor impulse and mechanism of the movements Re-expansion of the lobes. THIS plant, commonly called Venus' fly-trap, from the rapidity and force of its movements, is one of the most wonderful in the world.* It is a member of the small family of the Droseraceae, and is found only in the eastern part of North Carolina, growing in damp situations. The roots are small; those of a moderately fine plant which I examined consisted of two branches about 1 inch in length, springing from a
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A1692
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Anon. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. An important and peculiar discovery in natural history- can it affect agricultural interests? Wilmington Morning Star (North Carolina), (20 November): 2. [See CUL-DAR226.2.168]
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gratitude for developing and explaining this discovery. Among various insect-eating plants described by the distinguished scientist mentioned, the most remarkable is Dionæa, a small plant which grows in a limited district in North Carolina. The plant referred to is the fly-catcher or Venus fly trap, which grows chiefly, we believe, in the Cape Fear section. It would be impossible in our limited space to quote some of Mr. Darwin's most interesting paragraphs. We have only endeavoured to give our
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A1123
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Thomatis, D. 1875. Carnivorous Plants and Darwinism. The Telegraph [Brisbane] (29 September): 3.
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plants, although by no means numerous. The principal are: - Drosera (sundew), Dionae muscipula (Venus fly-trap), Aldrovanda vesiculosa, Utricularia vulgaris and neglecta, Mimosa sensitive, etc. The last is abundantly found in Central America, the others are rather rare, but can be met with by careful search in the centre of the tropics over marshy and swampy lands chiefly of Borneo, and, as Mr. Darwin two years ago told me in a visit to the said plants in Kew Gardens, most likely also in the
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digestive apparatus has to wait for time, the great healer, to bring them back to soundness and to health. The tentacles upon which animal food acts in these plants never make mistakes. Their sensitiveness is not apparent when inorganic substances touch them; but let that which can be healthily absorbed touch their surface and action begins at once. The Venus Fly Trap is one of the varieties mentioned by Dr Darwin as most common. In this interesting work it may seem as if the author has exhausted
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A1691
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Thomatis, D. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. Telegraph (Brisbane), (29 September): 3.
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plants, although by no means numerous. The principal are: Drosera (sun-dew), Dionae muscipula (Venus' fly-trap), Aldrovanda vesiculosa, Utricularia vulgaris and neglecta, Mimosa sensitiva, etc. The last is abundantly found in Central America, the others are rather rare, but can be met with by careful search on the centre of the tropics over marshy and swampy lands chiefly of Borneo, and, as Mr. Darwin two years ago told me in a visit to the said plants in Kew Gardens, most likely also in the
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A1685
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Anon. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. Inter-Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), (25 August): 7.
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family, Droseraceæ, to which belongs that curious plant found only in the eastern part of North Carolina, the Dionaea muscipula, commonly called Venus fly-trap, from the rapidity and force of its movements, and the rare Drosophyllum, known only in Portugal and Morocco. He even went beyond the Droseraceæ, and experimented on some species of Pinguicula and Utricularia. The result was to establish that these plants possess in a minor degree, the power of digestion belonging to the Droseraceæ, and
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A2207
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Anon. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. Harper's Magazine, 52 (December): 144-145.
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some respects even more so, is the action of the Venus fly-trap, found only in North Carolina. The leaf consists of two lobes standing at rather less than right angles to each other; they are armed with spikes, extending from the upper side of each lobe; these spikes stand in such a position that when the lobes close, they interlock like the teeth of a rat-trap. When an insect alights between the lobes of Wis leaf, the lobes immediately bend together at the top, the spikes interlock, the insect
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A1690
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Anon. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. Plants that capture, kill, and digest insects. Sydney Morning Herald (16 November): 7. [From Morning Daily Call]
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, furnished with long pointed, sensitive hairs, causing the lobes to close when touched. The glands which stud the surface of the leaf exude a true digestive fluid, and subsequently absorb the digested mass. The plant is chiefly noteworthy as being purely aquatic It is a miniature Venus fly- trap, according to the author, is wholly destitute of roots, and floats freely in the winter, feeding largely upon aquatic insects and minute crustaceans. The volume ends with an account of a very curious
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A1151
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Anon. 1875. [Review of] Insectivorous plants. Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee) (8 August), p.2.
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without the intervention of any nervous system. [2] 1875. Insectivorous Plants. (F1217): 271-2 Here is a living being, a mere plant, more sensitive without a nerve than man with brain and nerves in the supposed greatest perfection. The organisms that feed on the sound and diseased bodies of mankind, may be not not less at the head of organic life, than at its base. In describing the Venus fly trap, our author makes the following interesting statement. The Venus fly-traps does not close its lobes
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A664
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A. M. 1875. [Review of] Insectivorous plants. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 8 (24 July): 63-65.
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of bending, either independently or conjointly with the rest, covering and detaining by their secretion any small insect that they may have captured. Fig. 2 shows one-half of them so bent over, and the other erect. In a third species, Venus' Fly-trap (Dion a muscipula) the tentacles are replaced, or, at least, their office is performed by a series of spines along the margin of the leaf, like a chevaux-defrise, which, when the two sides of the leaf close together, interlace, and act as prison bars
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CUL-DAR140.1.13
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1877.11.17
Speech delivered by the public orator [English translation]
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produce fresh plants. How beautifully he explains the mechanics of the little plant we call Venus' fly trap; of the ancestry of the hoarse-throated pigeon, bird that draws the var of Line; of the ways in which the wooings of the feathered tribes are helped by the charm of song glow of plumage. With what mastery his discourses to us of of pleasure he handles the whole range of animal life (like the wise King of old) the fowls of the air the fishes of the sea and that which creepeth on the
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A2236
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Anon. 1881. [Review of Movement in plants]. English Mechanics and the World of Science, 32 (14 January): 435-436.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 436 The Power of Movement in Plants. By CHAS. DARWIN, LL.D., F.R.S., assisted by FRANCIS DARWIN. London: John Murray, 1880. THAT, under certain circumstances, such plants as the Mimosa sensitiva, the Venus' fly-trap, the Drosera or Sun-dew, c., exhibit active movements, has long been a familiar fact. It will be news, however, to the reader who has not made botany a special study, that plants are all, more or less, in motion; and that certain
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A314
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Miall, L. C. 1883. The life and work of Charles Darwin: a lecture delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 6th, 1883. Leeds: Richard Jackson.
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until the characteristic marsupial bones were revealed. The morphologists never predicted anything at all, and looked upon Cuvier's triumph as something rather low. They were satisfied with pointing out that he could not have done the same thing in every case. Darwin's power of reasoning from the seen to the unseen might be illustrated by nearly every chapter of his writings, but I give only a single instance. When he was studying the Dionaea (Venus' fly-trap), he noticed that the trap, if
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little has been made out in comparison with what remains unexplained and unknown. The facts relating to Venus' fly-trap (Dion a muscipula) and other members of the order to which the sun-dew belongs were better known, but Darwin elicited new truths by his ingenious and varied experiments. The rapidity with which the two lobes of the leaf of dion a close together when anything touches the tiny spikes which stand up vertically from the upper surface of the lobes, is astonishing, and any insect
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F1225
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Darwin, C. R. 1888. Insectivorous plants. 2d ed. Revised by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.
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transmission of the motor impulse and mechanism of the movements Re-expansion of the lobes. THIS plant, commonly called Venus' fly-trap, from the rapidity and force of its movements, is one of the most wonderful in the world.* It is a member of the small family of the Droserace , and is found only in the eastern part of North Carolina, growing in damp situations. The roots are small; those of a moderately fine plant which I examined consisted of two branches about 1 inch in length, springing from a
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A313
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Harmer, S. F. and W. G. Ridewood eds. 1910. Memorials of Charles Darwin: a collection of manuscripts portraits medals books and natural history specimens to commemorate the centenary of his birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The origin of species" 2d ed. British Museum (Natural History). Special guide no. 4.
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fertilised by Insects, 1862, and The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1876. In Case 20, a table-case near the last, is exhibited a series of models, drawings and specimens of Insectivorous Plants, such as the Bladderwort, Pitcher Plant, Butterwort, Sundew and Venus' Fly-trap. Darwin's book, Insectivorous Plants, 1875, contains the first detailed account of the remarkable method of nutrition characteristic of these plants. A copy of the book is shown in Case 3
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A622
Periodical contribution:
Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.
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chapter is devoted to just one of these, the Venus' fly-trap, Dionaea muscipula. It differs in having a much different, and more spectacular, way of capturing insects and in the details of how these are digested. But the trap is, like that of Drosera, a modified leaf. Aldrovanda vesiculosa, treated in the fourteenth chapter, is treated as a miniature, rootless, Dionaea, which lives submerged under water and captures crustaceans and insect larvae. In the fifteenth chapter three more genera are briefly
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