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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Forster, Observations on the Esula major germanica of Lobel. CUL-DAR46.1.4. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.1 contains Notes for Natural selection chap. 5 'Struggle for existence'.

Edward Forster. 1837. Observations on the Esula major germanica of Lobel. Transactions of the Linnean Society 17: 533-8.

Schomburgk, R. H. 1837. On the Identity of three supposed Genera of Orchideous Epiphytes. In a Letter to A. B. Lambert, Esq., V.P.L.S. By Mr. Robert H. Schomburgk. [Read 15 November 1836] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17: 551-2. A246

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Linn. Trans. 17 p. 533. "E. Forster observations on the Esula major Germanica"— The Euphorbia pilosa or palustris. (doubtful which it really is) lately ~~discovered~~ brought into notice by Mr. Babington, was found 260 years ago in the same neighbourhood & probably by side of same wood near Bath. — It is perhaps, however, originally an escaped plant.

Ch V.

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& amongst these plants, one produced a scope of Catasetum tridentatum"; saw this himself. (I fancy sown in America) — " Here were have traces of bisexuality in Orchidææ, for he never saw seeds in 100s plants of Cat. tridentatum, while Monochanthus viridis abounded with seeds. —

"Mr Bach raised from the seeds of Monochanthus viridis a plant of Catasetum," (case [word excised] seedling being similar) Lindley has

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