RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. CUL-DAR16.175b. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. RN1

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-DAR16 contains calculations and tables for Darwin's 'big book' Natural Selection F1583.


175b

1

London Cat. of B. Plants

Names of Vars:

No of Counties

No' of counties of those species, whose vars. had no' of County appended to them

Ranunculus reptans

1

18

Caltha radicans

1

18

Cochlearia alpina vars}

8

18

― danica vars}

13

 

― anglica vars} of Ire

14

 

Cardamine sylvatica

18

18

Sinapis monensis

6

 

Viola Curtissii

4

18

Cerastium nigrescens

1

4

Ulex annuus Gallii

7

12

Lotus tenuis

13

18

― hispidus

2

2

Vicia angustifolia

15

18

― gracilis

4

13

Acreminia odorata

1

16

Oyrus fennica vars}

5

13

― scandica vars} of Ire

6

186

Taraxacum palustre

18

18

Arctium Bardana

18

18

Gnaphalium norvegicum

1

18

Tilago apiculata }

5

18

― soathulata }

3

 

Erythrea littoralis }

12

18

― pulchella }

10

 

Veronica humifusa

5

18

Rhinanthus major

8

18

Scrophularia Ehrharti

6

18

Lamium incisum

18

18

Stachys ambigua

4

18

Anagallis caerulea

12

16

Atriplex marina

5

11

Quercus sessiliflora

17

17

Juniperus nana

8

18

Habernaria chlorantha

14

17

Ophrys arachnitis

1

10

― fucifera

1

4

37

286

459

 

 

Names of Vars:

No. of Counties

 

Allium sibiricum

1

2

Scripus glaucus

12

18

Carex Persoonia

1

16

― Ehrhartiana

2

12

― Grahami

1

3

―Oederi

16

18

― vaginata

3

18

― insigna

4

12

Glyceria Boireri

3

12

Festuca pseudo-myurus

8

17

― loliacea

15

18

Triticum biflorum

1

15

12

171

161

[+]35 37

286

459

[=] 47 vars 49

357 [-] 7 [=] 350

620

44 species

 

 



357 [÷] 49 [=] 7.28 counties averge of varieties.

Now get No' of counties to which species belong, introduced.
350 [÷] 47 [=] 7.44 .35 counties per species the Varieties

620 [÷] 44 [=] 14.09 Counties for the species having varieties—


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