THE LESSON OF THE BRITISH FLORA (_continued_)
The choice of station of the water-side plant possessing buoyant seeds
or seedvessels.—Determined by its fitness or unfitness for living in
physiologically dry stations.—In the internal organisation of a plant
lies the first determining influence of station.—The grouping of the
British strand-plants.—Whilst the Xerophyte with buoyant seed or fruit
finds its station at the coast, the Hygrophyte similarly endowed makes
its home at the river or pond side.—The grouping of the plants of the
river and the pond.—Summary.
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