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(though I hardly know what will become of it), or I would refer you to some illustrations.
The greater part of the identical species (of Japan and N.America) are of those extending to or belonging to N.W.coast of America, but there are several peculiar to Japan and E.U.
States: e.g.our Viburnum lantanoides is one of Thunberg's species.
De Candolle's remarkable case of Phryma, which he so dwells upon, turns out, as Dr.Hooker said it would, to be only one out of a great many cases of the same sort. (Hooker brought Monotropa uniflora, you know, from the Himalayas; and now, by the way, I have it from almost as far south, i.e., from St.Fee, New Granada)... Well, I never meant to draw any conclusions at all, and am very sorry that the only one I was beguiled into should "rile" (338/2.
"One of your conclusions makes me groan, viz., that the line of connection of the strictly alpine plants is through Greenland.
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