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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gay, Monographie Des Cinq Genres De Plantes Que Comprend La Tribu Des Lasiopétalées Dans La Famille Des Büttnériacées. CUL-DAR205.5.118. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.

Jacques Gay. 1821. Monographie Des Cinq Genres De Plantes Que Comprend La Tribu Des Lasiopétalées Dans La Famille Des Büttnériacées. Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 7: 431-74.

The brown crayon number '11' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Divergence.

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Mem: du Museum d' Hist. Nat. Tom VII. p. 431

M. Gay Monograph. des Lasiopétalées dans la fam. des Bullneriacees tt? [Buttneriacees]. The most essential organs in the several fa families (viz Malvaceæ &c) in this grand family of Butt: are subject to great variation.— Thus in the Sterculiacées, some have perisperm & embryon dressé some without perisperm & either embryo dressé or renversé, &c &c &c 11

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Hookers remark about no division of plants separable by single character, ie series more perfect.

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