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THE epithet, phylogenetic, in the above title might be considered superfluous, as all biologists are agreed that a taxonomic arrangement of any group of plants or animals should, so far as possible, follow evolutionary lines; after that, its convenience should be considered. Strange to say, up to the present, no arrangement of the Flowering Plants (Angiosperms), which has been generally adopted in text-books or used for floras, merits the term phylogenetic-hence the insertion of the word in the heading to this article.
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Kew Bulletin, pp. 65 and 241, 1923; pp. 49 and 114, 1924.
See, in this connexion, a letter dated May 13, 1907, from Sir J. D. Hooker to Dr. Newell Arber, reproduced in "Life and Letters of Sir J. D. Hooker" (Leonard Huxley, London, 1918, vol. 11, p. 22).
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PARKIN, J. The Phylogenetic Classification of Flowering Plants. Nature 115, 340–342 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115340a0
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