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STATISTICS, ETC., OF HAWAIIAN PLANTS. yg! 
‘Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants.’ (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and 
Sciences, vol. vii. p. 143.) 
* Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.’ (Proc. Essex Institute, vol. v.) 
The last has not been completed, and a number of other valuable 
and interesting memoirs remain unfinished. 
Early in October the severer symptoms of what he had considered a 
mere cold, compelled him most unwillingly to give up his college 
classes, temporarily as we all hoped; but the worst form of pulmonary 
complaint had gone too far to be stopped, and although his friends all 
hoped for his recovery, he passed away peacefully on the evening of 
November 11th, 1868, after some days of great pain and anguish. 
Sad as it seems to us, in our blind interpretations of Providence, 
that a life so full of promise, so pure, so true, a life so short and yet 
so full of results, should be cut short, yet the example of this life, 
called so closely to view by the angel of death, caunot but animate and 
encourage many others; and the nobly proportioned column, whose 
base and lower shaft alone we see on earth, yet raises its capital above 
the veiling clouds, a monument and beacon we may well follow. 
STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE OF HA- 
WAIIAN (SANDWICH ISLANDS) PLANTS. 
By Horace Mann, Esq. 
The Hawaiian Islands have a surface of about 4000 square miles, 
situated just within the tropics, and more than one thousand miles 
from any other land except a few rocks lying to the north-west, bare of 
vegetation, and inhabited by seafowl and seals. On this area, which 
includes an excessively dry and hot, a very wet and very hot, and from 
these every other variety to a very dry and very cold climate, is found 
a flora of 620 species of flowering plants * and Ferns, of which the 
former comprise 485 species, the latter 135; the Mosses, Lichens, 
and Alge being left out of consideration as too little known. 
Of the 554 flowering plants, including 69 species supposed or 
known to be introduced, 479 species belong to the Dicotyledone, and 
the remaining 75 to the Monocotyledone, in the proportion of nearly 
* Omitting Graminea, which have not yet been fully studied. 
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