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Humboldts Aspects of Nature Vol 2. p. 51.

Willdenow in his Grundriss der Kräuterkundie 4to Aufl. Berl. 1805. S. 405-412; has argued against C. Sprengels views of impregnation.

p.125 "In the Ancient World" as Link "an eminent naturalist" has remarked (Abhandl. der Akad. der Wiss. Berlin 1846 p. 322) "we see characters, now apparently remote & widely separated from each other, associated or crowded together in wondrous forms, as if a greater development & separation awaited a later age in the history of our planet."

- I presume applied to Plants

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N.B. Humboldt states that the Porites elongata is identical with that of Red Sea from the Dead Sea which is much salter than ocean. It is not found in the Mediterranean (From Lieut. Lynch's statements I doubt any living thing in Dead Sea

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Humboldt Aspects V. 2. p. 146 There is no climatal cause of the Calluna not extending beyond the Ural (V. Hooker Antarctic Flora p. 210) Have not all Heaths come up from S. Africa

p. 163 Claude Gay has shown that the Rosa Chilensis of Meyen is only the R. Centifolia which has run wild & occupies large tracts of ground so no physical reason against Rosa in S. America

p. 186 Quotes from p. 97 of Hooker on range of a certain grass, & says no other grass is common to the two Poles. (I may advance similar argument in regard to Opuntia)

p. 209 our common gooseberries & currants Ribes are so closely allied by their inflorescence with the Opuntiaceæ, that only quite recently they have been separated from it.

Alludes to Archiaceæ also