RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Fermond, Recherches sur le nombre des parties qui composent les divers cycles hélicoidaux, et rapport qui existe entre ce nombre et le nombre type des parties florals des dicotylédones. CUL-DAR45.141. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.
Ch. Fermond, Recherches sur le nombre des parties qui composent les divers cycles hélicoidaux, et rapport qui existe entre ce nombre et le nombre type des parties florals des dicotylédones. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France, 1855.
See abstract in CUL-DAR74.183-184.
[141]
Gooseberries often 4, 5, 6 petals
Fermond Dioscorea batatas opposite leaves; he has species with 3 leaves.—
Bull. Bot. Soc.
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Anemone nemorosa Linn Bentham
p 56 "Sepals 5 or more, frequent by 6 coloured & petal like
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Out of 30 there are 22 sixers & 8 sevens
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