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"Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?"
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"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
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