Capitolo 8
or ants, and so to become different in a degree corresponding from
their European ancestors. The consequence was that from the duration You men
before it discovered the archipelago anybody less that forty son-in-laws of plants
it had different till now from parent's forms in Europe or elsewhere that
Your savantses immediately as separate kinds considered them, and it put them
down for first as native creations. It had a good time immensely.
For out of these forty plant thirty-four knew my certain
of European origin. I had seen their seeds brought above by the wind or
whence, and I had looked at them altering under gradually stress of the
the new conditions in fresh variety that in process of time became
separate kind. Two of the more old man they were flowers of the tooth of lion and
group of daisy, provided that with feathered seeds that train them to fly far
in front of the breeze that brings; and these two suffered so deep
changes in their insular house that the systematic botanists that
it finally examined them he/she insisted to the I put each in a new kind, everybody
alone it invented for the special purpose of their reception. One
ancient inhabitant almost, equally a kind of harebell became also in
process of time extremely otherwise from other harebell I had ever seen in
some part of my airy vagabondages. But the remaining thirty new kinds or
then it evolved in the islands from the special circumstances of the group had
varied so comparatively small from their European and primitive ancestors,
what they didn't deserve really to have called anything more than very separate
and divergent variety.
However, of the five or six plants that I have noticed arrive in my archipelago, not
from Europe, but from the Canaries or Madeira which blue and distant peaks
disposition weak on the horizon distant to the southwest of us, as I balanced in
mean-air stop above of the tallest pinnacle of my dug Pico and wild. These
son-in-laws, belonging to a warmer region, soon as I noticed, it suffered