To C. J. F. Bunbury [before 9 May 1856]1
List of Plants, common to Europe, observed by Meyer in Drége’s Cape collection: Flora B. 2. 1843. “Zwei pflanzengeograph. Documente.” s. 9.2
N. Certainly or probably naturalised by man’s intervention.
A. Aquatic or Marsh Plants.
S sea-side Plants
(?) Plants of which Mr Bunbury knows nothing.
Those unmarked will be the most striking cases of specific identity with Europe.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Drège, Jean François. 1843. Zwei pflanzengeographische Dokumente. With an introduction by Ernst Friedrich Heinrich Meyer. Flora, oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung. Suppl. to n.s. 1: 1-200.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Adds comments to a list of Cape of Good Hope plants which are also European and gives some additions to the list [see Natural selection, p. 552].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1617
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 73: 159
- Physical description
- AmemS 2pp †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1617,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1617.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6