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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Asa Gray. [1855]. [List of alpine Flora of the U.S.]. CUL-DAR46.2.B36b. 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-DAR46.2 contains Notes for Natural selection.

See Darwin to Asa Gray 25 April [1855] and other letters between the two men with important notes in Correspondence vol. 5.

Darwin copied the species from: Gray, Asa & Sullivant, William S. 1848. A manual of the botany of the northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive, (the mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant,) arranged according to the natural system. Boston. Darwin asked Gray to annotate the list with other habitats and ranges of these plants.

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p. 308. Castilleja septentrionalis White Mt. Arct. Amer. Oregon.

309 Euphrasia officinalis do. Arct. Amer, Arct. Asia, Arct. Eur. Alps.

346 Diapensia Lapponica do. & New. Y. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia Arct. Eur.

386 Polygonum viviparum do. Arct. Amer, Arct. Asia, Arct. Eur. Alps.

391 Oxyria digyna do. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

409 Empetrum nigrum do & do. Arct. Amer. &. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps. &c

423 Betula nana do & do. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

426 Salix phylicifolia do. [do] [do] [do] [do]

⎯ Uva-ursi do & do [do] Labrador.

430 ⎯ repens do Arct Am. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

⎯ ⎯ herbacea do [do] [do] [do] [do]

697 Hedysarum boreale Willoughby Mt Rocky Mts. &, Arct. Amer.

469 Platanthera obtusata New Hamp. & N.Y. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia.

504 Luzula parviflora Mts Maine & N.Y. [do] [do] Arct. Eur.

505 ⎯ arcurata White Mt. [do] [do] [do]

⎯ ⎯ spicata do [do] [do] [do] Alps.

508 Juncus trifidus do. & New Y. [do] [do] [do] [do]

525 Scirpus cæspitosus Maine to New Y. & Mts, Carol. sub alp. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.}

538 Carex scirpoidea White Mt. Arct. Amer. Labr. Greenland, Arct.

⎯ ⎯ capitata do [do] [do] [do] Arct. Eur. Arct. Asia. Alps.}

546 ⎯ rigida do & New Y. [do] [do] [do] [do] [do] [do]

550 ⎯ atrata do [do] [do] [do] [do] [do] [do]

558 ⎯ capillaris do & ~~Michigan~~ L. Superior [do] [do] [do] [do]

563 ⎯ rostrata do. & N. York. Arct. Amer.

575 Phleum Alpinum do [do] Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

582 Calamagrostis sylvatica do. or n. sp.? [do] [do]? [do]? [do]?

595 Poa laxa Nth Maine to New Y. [do] [do] [do] [do]

599 Festuca oraria White Mt & New England [do] [do] [do] [do]

605 Aira atro-purpurea White Mt & New Y. Rocky Mts, [do] Arct. Eur.

608 Hierochloe alpina New Engl. to New Y. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

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p. 161 ~~Cimicifuga Americana~~. High Mountains. Penn: Indig. Penn-Georgia not alpine

p 20 ~~Berberis Canadensis~~ Mt of Virginia Indig. not alpine

p. 33 Cardamine bellidifolia. White Mt Arct. Amer. Arct. Eu. Arc. Asia.

45 Viola palustris do. Rocky Mts. Arct. Eu. Arct. Asia. Alps. Doubtless Labr

46 ⎯ ~~hastata Mt of Penn: S to. Georgia Mts. Indig~~. not alpine

59 Silene acaulis White Mt Rocky Mts. Arct. Amer. Arct. Eu. Arct. Asia. Alps.

60 Arenaria Grœnlandica. Mt of N. Hamps. & New Y. Labrador, Greenland, Arct. Europe.

65 Paronychia argyrocoma White Mt & Allegh: only. Indig. (sub-alpina on White Mt strayed from N of Virginia

119 ~~Alchemilla alpina do~~. Delendum! Given to U.S. through some mistake of Pursh. not known nearer than Greenland.

119 Sibbaldia procumbens do. Rocky Mts. Arct. Amer. Labrador. Arct. Eu. Arct. Asia. Alp

~~119 Dryas integrifolia (only as said by Parish, do.)~~

121 Geum Peckii do Indig. = G. radiatum. Mx. Mts. Carol. (N. Carolina & Virginia

122 Potentilla minima do Alps. not yet found in Arct. Amer or Arct. Europ. or As after P. elegans Cham of E. Arct. Asia

123 ⎯ tridentata Catskill Mts & S. to Carol. Mts. Arct. Amer. Arct. Eur. Greenland Scotland!

125 Rubus chamæmorus White Mt— Arct. Amer. N. Brunswick. &c. Arct. Eu. Arct. Asia. &c.

135 Epilobium alpinum do & New Y. Arct. Amer. Arct. Eur. Act. Asia. Alps.

148 Saxifraga rivularis M. Washington Arct. Amer. Arct. Eur. Arct. Asia.

698 ⎯ oppositifolia Willoughby Mt Arct. Amer. Arct. Eur. Arct. Asia. Alps.

— ~~aizoides do. W. N. York. L. Superior &c. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.}~~

210 Solidago virga-aurea White Mt Arct. Amer. Arct. Eur. Arct. Asia. Alps.

— ⎯ thyrsoides do. & Catskill. Labrador, & Lower Canada.

236 Gnaphalium supinum Mt Washington Labrador & Greenland. Arct. Eu. Alps.

241 Arnica mollis White Mts & New Y. Arct. Amer.

249 Nabalus nanus New York. Indig. Doubtless in Labrador, &c

— ⎯ Boottii Whiteface M. N.Y. White Mts. N. Hampshire. Indig. Labrador.

255 Campanula rotundifolia White Mt Common in Northern Sates, Arct. Amer. Eu Asia. Alps.—

261 Vaccinium cæspitosum do Rocky. Mts. Oregon. Arct. Amer. Labrador.

— ⎯ uliginosum do & New Y. Arct. Amer. & Oregon. Arct. Asia. Arct. Europ. & lower.— Alps. &c.—

263 Arctostaphylos alpina White Mts Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps.

265 Andromeda hypnoides White Mt & New Y. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eu

267 Phyllodoce taxifolia do Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur.

269 Rhododendron Lapponicum do & do. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur

270 Loiseleuria procumbens do. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps

276 Ilex montana Catskill & Taconic Mts. Mass. to Carolina Indig.

304 Veronica alpina White Mts. Arct. Amer. Arct. Asia. Arct. Eur. Alps

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