RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Correa de Serra, Decandolle in Annales du Museum (Paris) vol. 10. CUL-DAR73.44. 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: References:
Correa de Serra. 1807. Vues carpologiques. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 10: 151-156.
Decandolle, M. 1807. Memoire sur le Drusa, genre nouveaux de la famille des Ombelliferes. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 10: 466-471.
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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Tom. X. p. 151. Vues carpologiques M. Corréa de Serra. — Si l'on examine les formes et les accidens, qui caracterisent les fruits dans l'une et dans l'autre, on trouvera que bien que chaque famille ait son propre port, ces formes et ces accidens se répètent dans les deux series." — gives numerous illustraions going through both whole series — there is no pod in monocot. but there are few exceptions.
p. 471. Sur le Drusa, genre nouveau des Ombellifères — confined to Canaries, small obscure plant, but with pericarp. furnished with elegant stellate hooks, (just like in wild carrots which I think sticks so to trowsers) — confined to Canaries Isld; is a very curious genus.
Plate at p. 456 of pericarp.
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