| → of any 1861 1866 1869 |
| or commonness of 1872 |
|
| → A 1861 1866 1869 |
| One of the higher 1872 |
|
| → not living under widely different conditions of life. 1861 1866 1869 |
| which live under nearly the same conditions. 1872 |
|
| → Such a plant 1861 1866 1869 |
| A plant of this kind 1872 |
|
| → in the sense here used, 1861 1866 1869 |
| OMIT 1872 |
|
| → if one kind of 1861 1866 1869 |
| But if the 1872 |
|
| → would be a dominant form 1861 1866 1869 |
| will then be dominant 1872 |
|
| → being 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
|
(
i.e.,
those including many species) being
1869 |
|
(
i.e.
, those including many species) being
1872 |
|
| → a 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
| the former will be found to include a 1872 |
|
|
in some slight degree modified,
still inherit those advantages that enabled their parents to become dominant over their compatriots. In these remarks on predominance, it should be understood that reference is made only to
forms which come into competition with each other, and more especially to the members of the same genus or class having nearly similar habits of life. With respect to
the number of individuals
→of any
species, the comparison of course relates only to the members of the same group.
→A
may be said to be dominant if it be more numerous in individuals and more widely diffused than the other plants of the same country,
→not living under widely different conditions of life.
→Such a plant
is not the less dominant
→in the sense here used,
because some conferva inhabiting the water or some parasitic fungus is infinitely more numerous in
and more widely
→if one kind of
or parasitic fungus
its allies in the above respects, it
→would be a dominant form
within its own class. |
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Species
of
the
Larger
Genera
in
each
Country
vary
more
frequently
than
the
Species
of
the
Smaller
Genera.
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| If the plants inhabiting a
described in any
be divided into two equal masses, all those in the larger genera
→being
placed on one side, and all those in the smaller genera on the other side,
→a
somewhat larger number of the very common and much diffused or dominant
might have been anticipated; for the mere fact of many species of the same genus inhabiting any country, shows that there is something in the organic or inorganic conditions of that country favourable to the genus; and, consequently, we might have expected to have found in the larger genera, or
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