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I HAVE been struck by a most cogent remark of Mr. Wallace's in his review of Mr. Allen's “The Colour Sense” (NATURE, vol. xix. p. 501), viz., “But surely in orchids the perianth more highly specialised than in any existing flowers whatever; and if we take into account the world-wide distribution of these plants, their intense richness in genera and species, and their wonderful complexity of structure, we must consider them as among the most ancient instead of the most recent of flowers.”
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WETTERHAN, D. Antiquity of Orchids. Nature 20, 53–54 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020053a0
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