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MUCH as I dislike controversy occasions arise when it must be faced; and Mr. Starkie Gardner's notice of the two new volumes by MM. Marion and Saporta (p. 289) calls for a reply. Personally I am obliged by Mr. Gardner's obvious desire to do justice to my views; but he must excuse me if I say that some of the “main facts” on which he relies are, like similar ones employed by the two French writers, charmingly independent of anything that I can find existing in nature.
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WILLIAMSON, W. The Evolution of Phanerogams . Nature 32, 364–366 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032364e0
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