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From E. J. Johnston   24 May 1875

Summary

The insect-capturing Araujia has been forwarded from Portugal.

He discovers Apocynum is not in the same family, and he has misquoted [John Leonard Knapp’s Journal of a naturalist (1829)]; Apocynum captures by stamens, not stigma.

Sends seeds of Portuguese Drosera.

Author:  Edwin John Johnston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 168: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9992