RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Alpine Flora are relicts of old Flora. CUL-DAR205.4.60. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10. 2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.4 contains notes on geographical distribution and species.
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Alpine Flora are relicts of old Flora, where extinction has gone on: they may be, in comparison with lowland Floras, be compared with aberrant genera. & the number of species is few to the genera & Families. But the Arctic Flora cannot be considered as a remnant, so why Alpine Floras. Hence radiation from Mountain summits may be all true.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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