RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Evelyn, A philosophical discourse of Earth, etc. CUL-DAR205.2.87. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. 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-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.
John Evelyn. 1787. A philosophical discourse of Earth. Relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, &c. With notes by A. Hunter. York.
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Evelyn's Discourse of Earth p. 43. Dr. Morrison affirms the Erysimum or Irio (Sisymbrium foliis runcinatis dentatis &c Linn) grew spontaneously after conflagration in London — it is curious exotic everywhere rare (does not say grew up in first year. A. Hunter in note says on banks of dock & ditches at Hull large crops of the Erysimum vulgare Bauh was reaped.—
with Railway embank & fire weed
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