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To J. D. Hooker 30 [September 1874]
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The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 [Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 340–341 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9664 |
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- … Hooker, 29 September 1874 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 September 1874 and n. 3. CD described the waterwheel plant, Aldrovanda vesiculosa , as a ‘miniature aquatic Dionaea ’, with projections resembling the bladders of Utricularia (bladderwort), in Insectivorous plants , pp. 321 and 324. Daniel Oliver’s paper on Utricularia described the bladders in U. jamesoniana ( Oliver 1859 , …
