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Cybele Britannica by Hewett Cottrell Watson

p. 9. The indigenous & naturalised plants of B. [British] amount to 14 or 1500 species.

p. 11 Perhaps not one common to every parish – Totalling 200 occur in every county – possibly 800 common to England Scotland & Wales – (all this shows nice adaptation.)

p. 37. "Th Flora of all our mountains has much closer affinity with that seen N. of the B. Islands, than it has with that of th alps of Middle Europe; it is for example, much more like the flora of Lapland that th flora of Switzerland." (good)

p. 43 "Perhaps no two species have exactly the same distribution or relative frequency." -some are common to two or more [illeg] of height.

p. [130-] 131 Draba rupestris, this is one of our most thorough alpine or arctic species, yet seeds freely in his garden in January – D. incana are same, though [3 words illeg]

p. 180 – which Viola tricolor " passes with v. arvensis on th one side, is approximates so much towards V. lutea on th other side, that a distinction becomes scarcely more easy between them" – get [tricolour] V. lutea as a species

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p. 181 that V. lutea is really identical with V. grandiflora & sudetica, no longer admits c doubt as announced in [Companion to] Bot. Mag. Vol 1, p. 158.

p. 207. considers th red & white [also] Lychnis dioica as two species – L. vespertina in th white & L. dioica th red.

p. 230 Mr Babington Ceratium pedunculatum

was in 1837. considered a species

       in 1841 [considered] a var

       in 43 as [considered] as [nothing ], not noticed

& in var. of C. semidecandrum

 

p. 274 Ulex Strictus is a peculiar form, or rather monstrosity of N. Europæus, which in hereditary by seed. (U. nanus is a distinct species)

p. 330 Prunus spinosa, has 2 vars of which P. domestica seems only to occur as a descendent of tt vars. in cultivation.

p 333 think same of certain cherries

p 334 P. spinosa, almost admitted origin of our plums – so of tt wild apples, some he considers – degenerate seedless, some as improving vars. – specks of intermediate stages in our hedges – (great against V. [illeg] )

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p. 338 Geum intermedium it is truly difficult to say whether to consider it as a var. of G. rivale or urbanum, some examples approximating to one & some to tt other side. My own idea is that both species may sport into varieties greatly resembling each other.

p 346 [Hew] analogues opinion with respect to Potentilla nemoralis namely that var. of P. reptans & P. Tormentilla are clubbed together & make up P. nemoralis

p 406. Saxifraga hirsuta Linn: (Hibernian). The result of raising in garden Irish saxifrage from seed seems almost & warrant the union of this with S. Geum. The difficulty is that while on one side it appears to pass into Geum, on th other it approximates very much to S. umbrosa.

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I see very many plants are considered by him as doubtful natives, though well naturalised.

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It is important to remark that it is in Britain; when Bot. nest known in [the] world, that so much [numerical] doubt above which are species & which var. Sel probably [illeg] of close species came from distant climates – viz N. America.

(Mem. A. Gray remarks about close species incurring from countries included)