From Charles Pickering1 9 January 1850
Metia, or Aurora Island. being elevated, its Flora is not restricted to those few plants, which everywhere in the Pacific occupy the low coral islands.— Metia, has the same plants as the neighbouring island of Taheiti.
I have not at hand the specimens collected at Metia— And the following list is transcribed from my Journal, written up a few weeks after our visit, in September, 1839.
The plants marked “(bis)” had been observed on the low coral islands, prior to our arrival at Metia
C. P. 2
I observe now on reviewing the above List, that the Coral-island and other maritime and submaritime plants being excepted, the remainder are nearly all introduced plants—brought by the natives either accidentally, or for the purposes of cultivation.3
C. P. Boston, Jan. 9th. 1850.
Footnotes
Summary
Lists plants of Metia or Aurora Island collected during visit in Sept 1839. Flora same as that of neighbouring Tahiti.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1289
- From
- Charles Pickering
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Boston Mass.
- Source of text
- DAR 205.4: 99
- Physical description
- AmemS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1289,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1289.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4