RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1843.10.19. Mr Leighton has sown seeds of Atriplex. CUL-DAR205.10.56. 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.
"Leighton, William Allport, 1805-89. Anglican clergyman and lichenologist. Schoolfellow of CD at Mr Case's school, Shrewsbury and fellow student at Cambridge. CCD1. 1841 Flora of Shropshire. Recollections of CD in 1881 (F2563) and in c.1886 DAR112.B94-B98, transcribed in Darwin Online." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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Shrewsbury Oct 19 43 — Mr Leighton has sown seeds of Atriplex in garden, collected from many localities, & a mass of plants came up, which defied powers of Babington & Borser to classify!!
Under Protean genera
not or Rubus hereditary — Bell Salter has under some of Rubus
(Q)
[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 113.]
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