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have been proved to be permanent by cultivation under varied con- 
ditions, all of which are different from their own original habitats. 
heir ki i refore specific in its nature, and we 
will leave it to others who are interested in the point to allot 
seems h t 
der in Scandinavia, we may with some safety assume that the 
bulk of the plants now considered to be endemic here will even- 
While on these points, I take the opportunity of calling atten- 
for i been 
sense,” as Mr. C. B. Clarke does, and at the same time (or pre- 
viously) sneering at investigations of the kind referred to. One is 
see Evolution in its active state. 
can easily understand how galling it must be to the mere 
plant-sorter, to see the increasing study of the more critical groups 
away from him; but it does seem an anomaly that one writing from 
the Darwinian point of view should fail to see the extreme value of 
studying those groups in which the forms run closes 
is a local form ; in its wide distribution in Scotland (from Shetland 
southwards), due to the pappus-borne fruit, it forms a notable ex- 
ception to the rest of the American group. 
Besides the plants referred to above, there are various others in 
Mr. Bennett’s list which I should not venture to accept as en- 
demic ; as, however, the exclusion of these rests mainly on indi- 
vidual opinion, it is perhaps not worth while to name them at 
present. There are also some which may be eventually added to 
the list, but in the present early stage of their history, it would be 
premature to accord them such rank. 
