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The winds at the camp were extremely variable and local from north 

 and south, usually light, with force 1-3 : see under Winds and Clouds in 

 the text. 



Rain fell on six days, total y ff °o of an inch : but on four of the days it 

 was not measurable. 



NOTE 62 (page 222) 

 On the Relative Proportion of Vascular Cryptogams in Fiji 



According to Seemann's work, where about 617 indigenous flowering 

 plants and about 195 ferns and lycopods are enumerated, the vascular 

 cryptogams would form about 24 per cent, of the whole flora. (All weeds 

 and cultivated plants are here excluded.) The vascular cryptogams, how- 

 ever, seem to figure too prominently in Seemann's collections. From 

 Home's data, who says that he added 363 flowering plants to the flora, 

 the flowering plants would amount to about 980 ; and since Baker implies, 

 in Trimerfs Journal of Botany, 1879, that Home added 42 species of ferns 

 and lycopods to the flora, this would increase the vascular cryptogams 

 to 237, which enables us to estimate the relative proportion of vascular 

 cryptogams in Fiji as about 20 per cent, of the whole flora of vascular 

 plants. This is probably near the truth. 



NOTE 63 (page 222) 



On the Table of Vascular Cryptogams of Tahiti, Hawaii, 



and Fiji 



In the case of Tahiti, I have gone carefully through the list given by 

 Drake del Castillo, comparing it with other Polynesian lists given by 

 Seemann, Home, Hillebrand, Hemsley, &c, and have reduced his endemic 

 species from 19 to 13. The same thing has been done with Hillebrand's 

 list for Hawaii, some of his species having been found in other parts of 

 Polynesia, thus reducing the endemic species from 75 to 70. The data 

 relating to Fiji are referred to in Note 62. 



NOTE 64 (page 223) 

 On the Distribution of the Tahitian Ferns and Lycopods 



I have arranged them as follows, according to the distributions given 

 by Drake del Castillo : — Cosmopolitan, 5 ; Tropics of Old and New Worlds, 

 33; Tropics of Old World, mainly Indo-Malaya, 58; "Oce'anie," in- 

 cluding Australia, 17; Polynesia, 26; South America, 2; peculiar to 

 Tahiti, 13 : total, 154. 



Out of 141 non-endemic Tahitian species, 107 at least have been 

 recorded from the Fijian area comprising Samoa and Tonga, and 42 from 



