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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.03.25. Mr Bunbury says there is Vaccinium & Saxifrage endemic species in Madeira. CUL-DAR205.4.68. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10. 2021. RN1

NOTE: The brown crayon number '20' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Island endemism: plants.

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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March. 25. /55/

Mr Bunbury says there is Vaccinium & Saxifrage endemic species in Madeira, these are N. genera, but no northern species apparently according to Lowe there are some few plants peculiar to P. Santo; How many does not appear.

Says that one of the most peculiar of Table Mn [mountain] plants has been [found] on same level at [illeg] Kloof. This with relation to Abyssinia may be due to cold period. No northern plants on Table Mn.

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The Pteris longifolia, which I think is fd by hot springs of Ischia, is fd also in Teneriffe, & Hon Gray says in Sicily.

Besides Ophrys, cistus seems [illeg] absent in Madeira

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