Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.
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Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.