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IN the course of work on the geography of the Angiosperms, I have been impressed by the absence of any satisfactory theoretical explanation of the more general features in the distribution of these plants. It will, I think, be agreed that the present distribution of the Angiosperms has been brought about by the intermingling, at different times and in different degrees, of a number of floras which have developed at different times and in different parts of the world. This being so, any general theoretical explanation must provide not only a means of actual plant-movement, and a motive force for it, but also a directional control of movement and a discriminating or sifting factor.
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GOOD, R. Plant Distribution. Nature 127, 484 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127484a0
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