From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]1
Primula veris L. sp. Pl. 204 included both cowslip & Primrose
his vars were | α officinalis |
β elatior | |
γ acaulis2 |
Benth. makes all one species P. veris L.
distingg. P. | vulgaris | Brit. Fl. | = | Primrose |
veris. | Brit. Fl. | = | Cowslip | |
elatior | " — | = | oxlip.3 |
Continent (Koch)
calls | Primrose P. acaulis. Jacq. Misc. 1.158 |
Cowslip P. officinalis Jacq. l.c.1594 |
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bentham, George. 1865b. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. For the use of beginners and amateurs. 2 vols. London: Lovell Reeve & Co.
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Jacquin, Nikolaus Josef. 1778–81. Miscellanea Austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia. 2 vols. in 1. Vienna: Krausiana.
Koch, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph. 1843–4. Synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae, exhibens stirpes phanerogamas rite cognitas, praemissa generum dispositione secundum classes et ordines systematis Linnaeani conscripta. 2d edition. 2 vols. Frankfurt: Fridericus Wilmans. Leipzig: Gebhardt & Reisland.
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. 2 vols. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius.
‘Specific difference in Primula’: On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officinalis of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip. With supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids in the genus Verbascum. By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (1869): 437–54.
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5824F
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 108: 81
- Physical description
- Amem
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5824F,” accessed on 17 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5824F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16