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

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PREFACE

LIST OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES QUOTED IN THIS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II THE FLORAS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF DISPERSAL BY CURRENTS

CHAPTER III THE LESSON OF THE BRITISH FLORA

CHAPTER IV THE LESSON OF THE BRITISH FLORA ( continued )

CHAPTER V THE FIJIAN STRAND-FLORA

CHAPTER VI THE TAHITIAN STRAND-FLORA ( From materials supplied

CHAPTER VII THE HAWAIIAN STRAND-FLORA

CHAPTER VIII THE LITTORAL PLANTS AND THE CURRENTS OF THE PACIFIC

CHAPTER IX THE GERMINATION OF FLOATING SEEDS

CHAPTER X THE RELATION OF THE BUOYANCY OF SEEDS AND SEEDVESSELS TO THE DENSITY OF SEA-WATER

CHAPTER XI ADAPTATION AND MEANS OF DISPERSAL

CHAPTER XII THE CAUSES OF THE BUOYANCY OF SEEDS AND FRUITS OF

CHAPTER XIII ADAPTATION AND SEED-BUOYANCY

CHAPTER XIV THE RELATION BETWEEN LITTORAL AND INLAND PLANTS

CHAPTER XV THE RELATION BETWEEN LITTORAL AND INLAND PLANTS ( continued )

CHAPTER XVI THE RELATION BETWEEN LITTORAL AND INLAND PLANTS ( continued )

CHAPTER XVII THE STORIES OF AFZELIA BIJUGA, ENTADA SCANDENS, AND CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA

CHAPTER XVIII THE ENIGMAS OF THE LEGUMINOSAE OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

CHAPTER XIX THE INLAND PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

CHAPTER XX THE EPOCHS IN THE FLORAL HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS The Age of Ferns

CHAPTER XXI THE ERAS OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS The Age of CompositAE.

CHAPTER XXII THE ERA OF THE ENDEMIC GENERA ( continued ) The

CHAPTER XXIII THE ERA OF THE NON-ENDEMIC GENERA OF FLOWERING

CHAPTER XXIV THE MOUNTAIN-FLORAS OF THE TAHITIAN AND FIJIAN REGIONS

CHAPTER XXV THE ERA OF THE NON-ENDEMIC GENERA OF FLOWERING

CHAPTER XXVI THE MALAYAN ERA OF THE NON-ENDEMIC GENERA OF

CHAPTER XXVII THE MALAYAN ERA OF THE NON-ENDEMIC GENERA OF

CHAPTER XXVIII THE POLYNESIAN AND HIS PLANTS

CHAPTER XXIX BEACH AND RIVER DRIFT

CHAPTER XXX THE VIVIPAROUS MANGROVES OF FIJI Rhizophora and Bruguiera

CHAPTER XXXI A CHAPTER ON VIVIPARY

CHAPTER XXXII THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA

CHAPTER XXXIII SEED-DISPERSAL AND GEOLOGICAL TIME

CHAPTER XXXIV GENERAL ARGUMENT AND CONCLUSION

APPENDIX List of Notes

GENERAL INDEX

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Some corrections have been made to the printed text. These are listed in a second transcriber’s note at the end of the text.

OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST IN THE
 
PACIFIC BETWEEN 1896 AND 1899

[Frontispiece.

Selala (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄3).

Fruits with seedlings nearly ready to fall from the tree of Rhizophora mangle (shortest) and Rhizophora mucronata (longest). From Vanua Levu, Fiji. (1⁄4 of the true length.)

Rhizophora mangle (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄4).

Rhizophora mucronata (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄5).

OBSERVATIONS OF
A NATURALIST IN
THE PACIFIC BETWEEN
1896 AND 1899
BY
H. B. GUPPY, M.B., F.R.S.E.
VOLUME II
PLANT-DISPERSAL
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906
All rights reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
Dedication
TO THOSE NUMEROUS PERSONS TO WHOM I WAS INDEBTED FOR
GREAT KINDNESS AND ASSISTANCE DURING MY
SOJOURN IN HAWAII AND FIJI
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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