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ARTICLE V SEQUOIA AND ITS HISTORY: THE RELATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN TO NORTHEAST ASIAN AND TO TERTIARY VEGETATION

Age and Size of Sequoia.—Isolation.—Decadence.—Related Genera.— Former

Distribution.—Similarity between the Flora of Japan and that of the United

States, especially on the Atlantic Side.—Former Glaciation as explaining

the Present Dispersion of Species.—This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil

Flora of the Tertiary Period.—Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding

Cretaceous.—Order and Adaptation in Organic Nature likened to a

Flow.—Order implies an Ordainer