Or.iVER. — Vegetation of the Kermadec Islands. 



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Auckland, Campbell, Macquarie, Antipodes, Bounty, Cliatliams — unques- 

 tionably Ibelong to the New Zealand region, as not only do their natural 

 productions closely resemble those of New Zealand, but the geological struc- 

 ture of some suggests the probability of a former land connection with that 

 country. To the north of New Zealand, however, there are three islands or 

 groups of islands possessing floras and faunas as to whose relationships 

 botanists and zoologists are not agreed. I refer to Lord Howe Island, 

 Norfolk Island, and the Kermadecs. Being all of volcanic origin, they bear 

 no geological evidence of having ever been directly connected with any 

 land-mass. Sunday Island is perhaps an exception, as the pumice tuffs on 

 the north coast include some fragments of hornblende-granite. 



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Coastal formations. ' ' ', 



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Botanical Map of Sunday Island. 



Lord Howe Island is included under New South Wales in Mr. Bentham's 

 " Flora AustraUensis," and in Baron von Mueller's " Census of Austrahan 

 Plants " Norfolk Island as well is included in the Australian region. Pro- 

 fessor R. Tate has pointed out (18 ; p. 205) that the floras of Lord Howe 

 and Norfolk Islands are allied to that of New Zealand ; but these islands are 

 not included in the New Zealand area by Mr. Cheeseman in his "Manual 

 of the New Zealand Flora," though he enumerates the plants of the 

 Kermadecs. 



There is as little agxeement among zoologists as among botanists 

 respecting the region to which these islands belong. Australian zoologists 

 claim them apparently because they are most easily worked from Sydney, 

 but Dr. A. R. Wallace has shown (19 ; p. 453) that their faunas are really 

 alHed to that of New Zealand ; and Messrs. Parker and Haswell (15 ; p. 596) 



