RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Smith, A botanical sketch of the genus Conchium. CUL-DAR205.10.49. 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.

James Edward Smith. 1808. A botanical sketch of the genus Conchium. Transactions of the Linnean Society 9: 117-34.


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Linn: Trans. vol IX p. 117. Sir J. Smith speaking of the Australian genus Metrosideros (of which he made 3 species) says states the three were all raised by seed from one capsule, but that the ablest botanist not preinformed preinformed of this, would have made them distinct species.


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