JOHNSTON: FLORA OF MARGARITA ISLAND. 303 



is also seen in studying the distribution of the individual plants that 

 Margarita contains twice as many plants which are characteristic of 

 South Anaerica as are characteristic of the West Indies. And finally, 

 it is still as clearly evident from comparing it with other islands about 

 the Caribbean Sea that while Margarita has some plants common to 

 all of the islands, yet as a whole it has a flora quite distinct from the 

 northern islands and at the same time closely approaching that of the 

 Venezuelan islands and the north coast of the mainland. 



