Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 Plant-Dispersal
CHAPTER IV
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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