RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ch. 5 after giving proportions of plants & extermination of some. CUL-DAR46.1.5. 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'.
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Ch. 5
after giving proportions of plants & extermination of some; add that I have observed in the soil round my house, that if not mowed & long left, whether or not manured as in my old Pigeon House & on borders of Potato field, that the Dactylis largely beats other grasses, though comparatively rare in mowed or browsed land.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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