Crossword-Solution: ALPH 4 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The fact of the larger fruits often floating longer than the small, is interesting; as plants with large seeds or fruit which, as Alph.

The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph.

Again, islands often possess trees or bushes belonging to orders which elsewhere include only herbaceous species; now trees, as Alph.

Being familiar with the fact that many species, naturalised through man’s agency, have spread with astonishing rapidity over wide areas, we are apt to infer that most species would thus spread; but we should remember that the species which become naturalised in new countries are not generally closely allied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but are very distinct forms, belonging in a large proportion of cases, as shown by Alph.

This fact, together with that of the seeds and eggs of most lowly organised forms being very minute and better fitted for distant transportal, probably accounts for a law which has long been observed, and which has lately been discussed by Alph.