RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Smith, Observations on the British species of Bromus, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.61. 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.
James Edward Smith. 1798. Observations on the British species of Bromus, with introductory remarks on the composition of a Flora Britannica. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4 (April): 276-302.
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Linn-Trans= Vol 4. P. 281. Sir J Smith says all Authors have found difficulty in separating genus Bromus from Festuca he gives certain characters yet in B. erectus one of these characters fails, & the other partially so.— Yet he adds it must be a Bromus from its affinity to B. asper indubitably of this genus.— Case of confluent genera
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