RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Reuter, Essai sur la vegetation de la Nouvelle Castille. CUL-DAR73.17. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2014. RN1
NOTE: Reuter, M. 1843. Essai sur la vegetation de la Nouvelle Castille. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève 10: 215-243.
Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.
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Essai sur la vegetation de la N. Castille par M. Reuter. p. 234. —
On the mountains N. of Madrid few truly alpine plants, though there are great masses of snow, but there are many annual plants of the sandy plains of Madrid.
p. 236. — few plants common to the Guadarannia N. of madrid & the Alps, enumerates 15 (where names sound very alpine). — All these are also found in Pyrenees — much less analogy with the S. Nevada of S. of Spain, & all the species common to the Nevada, are also found in the Asturias & Pyrenees.
p.238
| Andalusia | Balearic Islds | |
| The Scrophularees | 1/27 | 1/43 |
| Labiata | 1/20 | 1/21 |
other facts showing that proportion does not hold the same in the Balearic island & in S. Spain (versus Hooker)
p. 239. — It is very curious that in Plateau of Castille, there are 11 plants, found in the Taurus & in countries N. & S. of Castille, but not found in any intermediate part of Europe.
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