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Hooker's "New Zealand") that makes any approach to the clearness with which your paper makes a non-botanist appreciate the character of the flora of a country.

It is wonderfully condensed (what labour it must have required!).

You ask whether such details are worth giving: in my opinion, there is literally not one word too much.
I thank you sincerely for the information about "social" and "varying plants," and likewise for giving me some idea about the proportion (i.e.
1/4th) of European plants which you think do not range to the extreme North.

This proportion is very much greater than I had anticipated, from what I picked up in conversation, etc.
To return to your "Statistics." I daresay you will give how many genera (and orders) your 260 introduced plants belong to.

I see they include 113 genera non-indigenous.


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