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some part has been above sea-level since before the volcanic 

 outburst to wliicli almost all the present island is due. So 

 far as the botanical evidence is concerned, the many species 

 these islands have in common points distinctly to connec- 

 tion. 



x\s for Antipodes Island, Hutton suggests that this has 

 never been united to the other Southern Islands. Here, 

 again, I think the botanical evidence is in favour of land- 

 connection, for the prevailing north-west wind would be just 

 as likely to colonise it with plants from New Zealand as the 

 south-west with plants from others of the Southern Islands. 



The Bounty Islands are perhaps the last remnant of a 

 portion of greater New Zealand, and its scanty algal flora 

 not the commencement of a land flora on a new-born land 

 just issuing from the waters, but the last survivors of such 

 a vegetation as that which has been described for these 

 Southern Islands. 



VII. List op the Indigenous Speemaphytes and Ptebido- 



PHYTES OF THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS. 



In the following the various elements which make up the 

 flora of the Southern Islands are thus indicated : A = endemic 

 in the Southern Islands ; B = occurring also in New Zealand ; 

 C = Fuegian, using this term in the wide sense proposed bv 

 Alboff (1). 



