RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. As Drosera has some chlorophyll, no doubt it decomposes carbonic acid. CUL-DAR60.2.60. 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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As Drosera has some chlorophyll, no doubt it decomposes carbonic acid — but like some partially parasitic plants it lives largely on the organic fluids juices of not of other plants, but of insects for capturing which it is specially adapted —
& is in this Cuscuta [illeg] live altogether on such fluids — Misseltoe, I presume also decomposes Carbonic Acid
Asa G. accounts for plants catching Flies & having little Chlorophyll. — Bull of Am Assoc Sci
Perhaps little less
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