RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. In a piece of wood from Chiloe. CUL-DAR40.56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1
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Darwin cited Brown in Journal and remarks, 1832-1836, p. 406. "Mr. Robert Brown has been kind enough to examine the wood: he says it is coniferous, and that it partakes of the character of the Araucarian tribe (to which the common South Chilian pine belongs), but with some curious points of affinity with the yew. The volcanic sandstone in which they were embedded, and from the lower part of which they must have sprung, had accumulated in successive thin layers around their trunks; and the stone yet retained the impression of the bark."
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In a piece of wood from Chiloe I believe East Coast, Mr Brown says that the section in the direction of the Medullary Fags, has the discs in a doubled row placed alternately & not opposite as in the common Araucarian & therefore in this respect would according to [illeg] be said to have the Araucarian structure
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