RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Smith, Catalogue of plants of S Kent. CUL-DAR47.28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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Analogous Var.
Mr Gerard. E. Smith in his Catalogue of Plants of S. Kent 1829 gives figures of var. of Bee Orchis with upper petal linear & hairy like the very peculiar ovary of Fly Orchis — So there is var of O. fucifera, (which is itself a var. of Arachnites, which by Bentham is var of Bee) & vars of Arachnites, which some look at as species & some as var. of Bee, which present a similar var. of the petal.
Ch VII
[Darwin cited Smith's work in Orchids, p. 68, n*: "Mr. Gerard E. Smith, in his 'Catalogue of Plants of S. Kent, ' 1829, p. 25, says: "Mr. Price has frequently witnessed attacks made upon the Bee Orchis by a bee, similar to those of the troublesome Apis muscorum." What this sentence means I cannot conjecture."]
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