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INSULAR FLORAS 



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disturbed and cultivated ground ? You speak of evergreen Letter 376 

 vegetation as leading to few or confined conditions ; but is 

 not evergreen vegetation connected with humid and equable 

 climate ? Does not a very humid climate almost imply 

 (Tyndall) an equable one? 



I have never printed a word that I can remember about 

 orchids and papilionaceous plants being few in islands on 

 account of rarity of insects ; and I remember you screamed at 

 me when I suggested this a propos of Papilionaceae in New 

 Zealand, and of the statement about clover not seeding 

 there till the hive-bee was introduced, as I stated in my 

 paper in Gard. Chronicle}- I have been these last few days 

 vexed and annoyed to a foolish degree by hearing that 

 my MS. on Domestic Animals, etc., will make two volumes, 

 both bigger than the Origin. The volumes will have to be 

 full-sized octavo, so I have written to Murray to suggest 

 details to be printed in small type. But 1 feel that the size 

 is quite ludicrous in relation to the subject. I am ready to 

 swear at myself and at every fool who writes a book. 



To J. D. Hooker. Letter 377 



Down, Jan. I5th [1867]. 



Thanks for your jolly letter. I have read your second 

 article, 2 and like it even more than the first, and more than 



alpine regions. The following table gives the percentages of annuals, 

 etc., in various situations in Freiburg (Baden) : 



1 " In an old number of the Gardeners' Chronicle an extract is given 

 from a New Zealand newspaper in which much surprise is expressed that 

 the introduced clover never seeded freely until the hive-bee was intro- 

 duced." " On the Agency of Bees in the Fertilisation of Papilionaceous 

 Flowers . . ." (Gard. Chron., 1858, p. 828). See Letter 362, note 2. 



The lecture on Insular Floras was published in instalments in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, Jan. 5th, i2th, igth, 26th, 1867. 



