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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 1
Summary:

Reports that he sees the oxlip, cowslip, and primrose as really distinct species; hybrids are formed between any two.

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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 207: 15
Summary:

He is not sure whether he has seen Subularia flowering above the water, but thinks it probably is an aerial flowerer, at least sometimes.

Has been unable to find an anonymous book on pigeons in the University Library.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:

CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A146–7
Summary:

States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:

Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.

Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.

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Darwin Correspondence Project