From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Most Anomalous Leguminosæ (from Bentham)1 Carmichælia — 52 Affonsea — 4 Stracheya — 1 Gleditschia — 4 Labichea — 6 Goodia — 2 Brongnartia — 6 Harpalyce — 2 Arachis — 5 Stylosanthes — 10 Chapmannia — 1 Abrus — 4 Cadia — 3 Dalhousiea — 1 Castanocarpum — 1 Dichaguea — 1 Diatium — 3 Detarium — 2 Copaifera — 6 Ceratonia — 1 Acrocarpus — 1
Footnotes
Hooker forwarded George Bentham’s list in response to CD’s request (letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854]).
The numbers in the column indicate the number of species in each aberrant genus. The table bears out CD’s view that aberrant genera were generally represented by very few species. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] and 11 [December 1854].
Summary
List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1546
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 205.9: 391
- Physical description
- Amem 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1546,” accessed on 23 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1546.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
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