8.Born in tsarist Estonia to Baltic Germans, he was naturalised in Finland and had to negotiate the complex inter-war contests over that country's future.
9.Therefore, when coming across a list of word forms natural ising, naturalises and naturalised, we know they share the same stem, that is, naturalise.
10.To give a single instance: in the last edition of Dr. Asa Gray's " Manual of the Flora of the Northern United States, " 260 naturalised plants are enumerated, and these belong to 162 genera.
11.For example, when the suffix -ise is attached to the adjective natural, the meaning of naturalise is not " to become natural" as one may predict, but " to become a citizen of a certain country."
12.We do not know that even the most prolific area is fully stocked with specific forms: at the Cape of Good Hope and in Australia, which support such an astonishing number of species, many European plants have become naturalised.