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of commonest weeds [page excised]

think 10 fold as many then introduced!??

In England the history not so well known.—

Mem Cybele of Watson — Probably or perhaps number introduced into islands only [later] apparent.

[insertion] Decandolle much better

Barbacenia, a small but very distinct natural order of Brazil; but there are two species of a genus in this same order in Madagascar.— a great anomaly in distribution but here perhaps smallness & distinctness of order implies much extinction. The fragmentary order implies antiquity & much extinction & hence a chance of former wide distribution.

The Robinsonia of Juan Fernandez, which has flowers of same sex of two different forms, ar [page excised]

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Reference:

Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1847-1860. Cybele Britannica; or British plants, and their geographical relations. London: Longman & Co. 4 vols. and part 1 of supplement. [inscribed in vol. 1 "from the author"] CUL-DAR.LIB.664 vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF vol. 3 PDF vol. 4 PDF supplement PDF Abstracts in CUL-DAR46.2.B48; CUL-DAR46.2.B49; CUL-DAR46.2.B53; CUL-DAR71.112-115; CUL-DAR205.10.75.] See also CUL-DAR262.8.1-2.

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Saw in Batemans Orchideae, beautiful plate of Cycnoches Egertonianum, which in Guatemala produced & once in England a scope dark purple & of a totally different species of Cycnoches, but generally in England scopes of the common Cycnoches ventricosum. yellow & much larger.—

(Really these facts are too much for my theory) It wd appear as if in this country it reverted to C. ventricosum. How is this idea applicalbe in the other cases? C. ventricosum seeds itself, so not sexual distinction. —

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Reference:

Bateman, James. [1843.] The Orchidacea of Mexico & Guatemala. London.