The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Don. A monograph of the genus Saxifraga. CUL-DAR205.4.30. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN2

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-DAR205.4 contains notes on geographical distribution and species.

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Linn. Trans XIII. p. 349. D. Don Mon. on Saxifraga says S. ligulata is one of many instances which "manifests that striking similarity which exists between the vegetation of Nepal & that of the Northern regions of Tartary."

Saxifraga andicola is from the highest parts of Peru - Don remarks on interest of those species of those genera which are generally found in Northern regions being thus found in colder zones of Tropics

There is Saxifraga Magellicanica

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7.6.

110 [÷] 3 [=] yd. 37/38 ?

37 [×] 3 [=] 111

16.6.

96 [÷] 37 [=] 2.7

5.6.

264 [÷] 37 [=] 7

[David Don. 1822. A monograph of the genus Saxifraga. Transactions of the Linnean Society 13: 341-452.]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)