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With its beautiful purple blush it reminds me, and supplies the place, of the Rhexia, which is now leaving off, and it is one of the most interesting phenomena of August.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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I see that Rhexia grows in Massachusetts; and I suppose has two different sets of stamens.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Do you remember telling me you could see no nectar in your Rhexia? well, I can find none in Monochaetum, and Bates tells me that the flowers are in the most marked manner neglected by bees and lepidoptera in Amazonia.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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If bees visit the Rhexia, for Heaven's sake watch exactly how the anther and stigma strike them, both in old and young flowers, and give me a sketch.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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I wrote some little time ago about Rhexia; since then I have been carefully watching and experimenting on another genus, Monochaetum; and
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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I forget whether Rhexia is common; but I very much wish you would next summer watch on a warm day a group of flowers, and see whether they are visited by small insects, and what they do.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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If there be not two forms of Rhexia, will you compare the position of the part in young and old flowers?
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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It was as high-colored and interesting, though not quite so bright, as the patches of Rhexia, being a darker purple, like a berry's stain laid on close and thick.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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The blushing Chironia and Rhexia, the spiral Ophrys with immaculate white flowers, the Limodorum, Arethusa pulcherima, Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenia galeata, Sarracenia lacunosa, Sarracenia flava.
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