also "Life and Letters", II. page 142.) The present state of the Flora of New Zealand affords a striking illustration of the correctness of this view. It is poor in species, numbering only some 1400, of which three-fourths are endemic. They seem however quite unable to resist the invasion of new comers and already 600 species of foreign origin have succeeded in establishing themselves.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The passage which seems to be referred to does mention the absence of BOREAL plants.) In the third column you speak as if savages (376/3. "Such plants on oceanic islands are, like the savages which in some islands have been so long the sole witnesses of their existence, the last representatives of their several races.") had generally viewed the endemic plants of the Atlantic islands. Now, as you well know, the Canaries alone of all the archipelagoes were inhabited. In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands?英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
If I could show positively that the endemic species were more hairy in dry districts, then the case of the varieties becoming more hairy in dry ground would be a fact for me.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
...I should like to know whether the case of Endemic bats in islands struck you; it has me especially; perhaps too strongly.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
If we carefully implement it, it can remove certain... doubt, endemic to the market.美剧 · 《Billions》
I am a loyal citizen of this great republic, currently unemployed due to endemic ageism and disruptive technologies reordering everything in our new gig economy.美剧 · 《Shameless》