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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



or 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 



No. 



[1914 



LVIIL— NOTES ON THE NATIVE PLANTS OF THE 



AZORES AS ILLUSTRATED ON THE SLOPES 

 OF THE MOUNTAIN OF PICO. 



II. B. GupPY, M.B. 



It does not seem easy to obtain a short general account of the 

 native vegetation of the Azores. Much as has been written on 

 the Azorean flora it is difficult to procure many data concerning 

 the relative frequencyj the mode of occurrence and associations 

 of the native plants except from the earlier writings of Seubert, 

 Hochstetter, Drouet, and Morelet, With some diffidence the 

 author endeavours in this brief sketch partly to supply these 

 deficiencies; but in this short space it will be only possible to 

 touch very lightly on subjects which he hopes to deal with in 

 detail in a subsequent publication. The monographs of Seubert 

 in 1844, of Watson in 1870, and of Trelease in 1897 form land- 

 marks in the history of the investigation of the flora. But many 

 have laboured to supply the materials, and here we may mention 

 Guthnick, the Hochstetters (father and son), ^ Godman, Hunt, 

 C. S. Brown, Sampaio, Carreiro, Machado, and Chaves. 



During his two sojourns in this group, from the middle of 

 rebruary to the end of April, 1913, and from the middle of June 

 to the middle of August, 1914, the author was principally engaged 

 in investigating the altitudinal ranges of the plants. After 

 familiarising himself with the flora in a stay of about three weeks 

 on San Miguel (St, Michael), during which he ascended the prin- 

 cipal mountains and enjoyed the privilege extended to him by the 



officials of the Municipal Museum at Ponta Delgada of consulting 

 the herbarium, he visited Pico and remained on the mountain 

 from the second week of March to the second week of April, 1913. 

 Durino^ his second sojourn in the group in 1914 he stayed on the 

 island of Pico from the end of June to the second week of August, 

 a period of six weeks, of which the first four were passed on the 

 mountain and the last two in the district of Caes-o-Pico and 



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