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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [25 March 1846]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.</p>


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