RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. A. Australis. CUL-DAR60.2.5. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).

 


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A. Australis

I have now found quite large Col. with all soft part removed, with wings perfect — not a [coleoptera] but every detail of chitin preserved,— Also here I saw true several several true quadrifids [sketch] all containing much brown matter & therefore visible!! — The glands contents were much more opake (Yes certainly) there in equal-sized specn. which had caught nothing.

The s Some of the marginal spines had not only P. lining shrunk, which was common to all but contained a good deal of brownish matter! (Yes) considerable [scarlet] green

4, 5, or 6 filaments, when 6 in → [sketch] footstalk of bladder longer

(Chitin jaw & cont of some other insects)

footstalk of Bilobed leaf longer —

glands crowded on midrib.


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