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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Persoon, An account of a remarkable variety of the Beech, Fagus Sylvatica. CUL-DAR205.10.52. 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.

Christian Henry Persoon. 1800. An account of a remarkable variety of the Beech, Fagus Sylvatica. Transactions of the Linnean Society 5: 232-3.

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Linn: Trans: V. 5 P. 232. Persoon ~~describes~~ mentions variety of the common beech found in Bohemia with lacinated leaves & describes another found wild remarkable for its extraordinary large leaves & fruit & another single tree near Gottingen still more remarkable the bark & manner in which branches grow precisely resemble an Oak. The country people consider it a cross with an Oak! — Persoon mentions a variety with streaked leaves.—

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If others with oak Bark had occurred we shd have thought it a species — it is old tree

[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 108.]

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