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Bay or tlic Soutliern extremity, which there grows in the lowcll 

 part' of the country, 



dwindles 



fmall inconfiderable flirub at 



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Sound, or the Northern end, where it is only 



feen on the higheil mountains. A fmiilarity of fituation and climate 

 fometimes produces a fmiilarity of vegetation^ and this is the reafon 

 why the cold mountains of I'ierra del Fuego produce feveral plants, 

 which in Europe are the inhabitants of Lapland, the Pyrenees, and 

 ihe Alps, , 



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The difference of foil and climate, caufes more varieties in the tro- 

 pical plants of the Southern illes, than in any other. Nothing is more 

 common in the tropical illes, than two, three, four, or more 



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varieties of the fame plant, of which, the extremes fometimes, 

 might have formed new fpecies, if we had not known the intermedi- 

 ate ones, which connedled them, and plainly lliewed the gradation. 

 In all thefe circumlliances, I have always found that the parts moil 

 fubjed to variatioji, were the leaves, hairs, and number of ilower 

 italks, (pedunculi) and that the fhape and whole contents of the 

 flower (partes frudificationis ) were always the moil: conftant. 

 This however, like all other rules, is not without exceptions, and 

 varieties arifing from foil fometimes caufe differences even there. 



but they are too flight to be noticed. A cold climate, or a 



high 



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