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Isatis Tinctoria JUNE 1841 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings [1827]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings, ed. John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1989).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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Isatis Tinctoria

JUNE 1841

Phytologist, I (June 1841), 30. No. 4 in Art. IX, “Varieties; Original and Select.” Signed “Id. [i.e., J.S. Mill; Kensington,] June 8, 1841.” Not republished. For the identification in Mill’s bibliography, see “Rare Plants in West Surrey” above. The square brackets are those of the Phytologist’s editor.

isatis tinctoria is now growing in prodigious luxuriance in the chalk-quarries close to the town [of Guildford]. It grows (in many instances) out of clefts in the precipitous chalk cliff, and makes almost a bush of flowers from the same root. Geranium lucidum I again found in my old locality, near St. Catherine’s Hill.