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How a Rare Darwin Sketch Finally Got Published

More than 180 years ago, Charles Darwin drew an orchid in Argentina. Now it’s being published in "Plant."
Scabiosa crenata, fruit.
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In 1833, a little more than a quarter-century before publishing , with the at anchor off the treeless shores of Port Desire, southern Argentina, sat down and drew a flower.  Just one flower, a not very good specimen of , the foot-high orchid of temperate grassland that’s a favorite fodder of

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