RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bartram's Travels. CUL-DAR205.1.11. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
NOTE: Darwin recorded reading Bartram's travels in N. America on 25 April 1839.
Bartram, William (1739-1823). 1791. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida. Philadelphia.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.1 contains notes on rudimentary organs.
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Bartrams Travels p. 381 describes a Hydrangea quercifolia as new species describes large mock flowers rising out of panicles of real small ones – composed of four crimson petals, of no sex but with 2, 3 or 4 papillæ a rudiment in centre. How curious!!! See Lindley.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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