RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ledebour [vols 1-4] / Genera with one sp[ecies]. CUL-DAR16.166. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR15.2 contains calculations and tables for Darwin's 'big book' Natural Selection F1583.

Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von. 1842-1853. Flora Rossica, sive enumeratio plantarum in totius imperii Rossici provinciis Europaeis, Asiaticis et Americanis hujusque observatarum. 4 vols. Stuttgart.

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Ledebour. Vols. 1. 2, 3 & 4

Genera with one species and having Vars:

Species

Sp No of Vars:

Provinces

Actaea

1

2

9

Vol. 1

Cimicifuga

1

1

6

 

Nelumbium

1

1

1

 

Chelidonium

1

3

9

 

Aurinia

1

1

2

 

Capparis

1

1

3

 

Buffonia

1

1

3

 

Honkeneja

1

1

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanguisorba

1

1

4 Vol. 2

 

Alchemilla

1

1

5

 

Chamaerhodes

1

1

5 (add 11 to vol 2)

 

Montia

1

1

6

 

Glinus

1

1

1

 

Parenychia

1

2

3

 

Polycarpon

1

1

1

 

Cicuta

1

1

9

 

Cendophium

1

1

8

 

Zosimia

1

1

2

 

Turgenia

1

1

5

 

Hedera

1

1

4

 

Maruta

1

1

6

 

Anandria

1

1

4

 

Cichorium

1

1

7

 

Microrhynchus

1

1

1

 

Azalea

1

1

2

 

Hypopytis

1

1

9

 

 

 

 

 

Trientalis

1

1

11

Vol. 3

Anagallis

1

2

5

 

Cynanchium

1

1

5

 

Hyssogamus

1

2

6 (add 5 to Vol. 3) 2 [+] 4 [=] 6

 

Euphrasia

1

4

12

 

Lathraea

1

1

6

 

Lippia

1

1

2

 

Ocimum

1

1

1

 

Hyssopus

1

2

6

 

Calliphysa

1

1

2

 

Elaeagnus

1

3

4

 

Asarum

1

1

4

 

Corylus

1

1

6

 

Cannabis

1

1

8

 

Salicornia

1

2

10

 

41

41

54

153 193

 


Genera with one Sp. and having Vars:

Species

Sp No of Vars:

Ruppia

1

1

5

Vol. 4

Butomus

1

1

9

 

Erythronium

1

1

2

 

Dactylis

1

1

7

 

Arrhenanthemum

1

1

4

 

Arctagrostis

1

1

5 Echinochloa

1

1

9

Andropogon

1

1

6

 

 

 

8

8

8

47

 

 

 

[+] 41

41

54

193

 

 

 

[=] 49 [-] 4 [=] 45

49

62 [-] 5 [=] 57

240

 

 

 



62 [÷] 49 [=] 1.26

Monotypic genera


57 [÷] 45 [=] 1.26 average number var to species


240 [÷] 45 [=] 5.33 Provinces to each of monotypes    varying species
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vol. 1. [illeg]

vol 2

vol 3.

vol 4

p. 1. — 17

p. 1 — 24

p 1 — 32

p 1 — 30

p 2 — 22

p 2 — 25

p 2 — 25

p 2 — 19

p. 3 — 19

p 3 — 22

p 3 — 19

3 — 20

p 4 — 23

p 4 — 29

p 4 — 26

4    21

p 5 — 12

― 5 — 26

5 — 13

 

 

― 6 — 18

 

 

 

7 — 25

 

 

 

8 — 8

 

 

93

177

115

90

[+] 177 [+] 115 [+] 90 [=] 475 genera with single species

 

 

 



45/475 proportion of sp with var to above

45 [÷] 475 [=] 94/1000

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