RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Miers; Berkeley, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. CUL-DAR205.5.87. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 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.
John Miers. 1841. On some new Brazilian plants allied to the natural order Burmanniaceæ. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18: 535-56.
M. J. Berkeley. 1841. On a gall gathered in Cuba by W. S. Macleay, Esq., upon the leaf of a plant belonging to the order Ochnaceæ. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18: 575-79.
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Linn Trans. v. 18. p. 535.
J. Miers describes some mew Brazilian plants allied to the Natural order Burmanniaceæ.— These plants seem to form transition in some respects with orchideæ.—
Linn. Tran. v. 18. p. 575. "Mr J. Berkeley on a Gall gathered in Cuba by W. S. Macleay."— so palpable is some analogies between various productions of insects & Fungi, that many eggs & galls have been described authors as true Fungi —
The eggs of a Hemerobius are Corda's Craleromyces candidus — Fries has described a real Fungus, which character agrees exactly with insects eggs. — "Again various galls assume the form of Fungi" & are often considered so by young Botanists — The present gall a wonderful resemblance to Fungi—
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