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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Transactions of the Linnean Society 17: 458 & 481. CUL-DAR205.10.44. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

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Linn. Trans. v. 17. p. 458 "Babington on new British & Europæan Plants" The British specimens of Polygonum maritimum "differ from the foreign ones by having the stipules rather shorter than the joints of the stems with fewer ribs." var. wild.

[Charles Babington. On several new or imperfectly understood British and European Plants, Transactions of the Linnean Society 17: 451-64.]

Linn. Trans. 17. p. 481. "Valentine on the sexes of mosses." theory that sporules answer to pollen & grow by themselves! (hybridisation)

[William Valentine. Observations on the Development of the Theca, and on the Sexes of Mosses, Transactions of the Linnean Society 17: 465-82.]

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