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GENERAL INDEX 



Fernando Noronha, its flora and its 



birds, 8, 144, 366, 388 

 Ferns, 220-30, 509, 5*7, 592, 593 

 Ficus, 61, 377, 387, 395, 504, 532 

 Fiji, the climate, 209, 215-8 ; the 

 seed-drift of rivers and beaches, 

 435-6; the "talasinga" plains, 42, 

 43, 215, 386, 547, 548, 569; area 

 and altitudes, 207-8 

 Fijian flora, the littoral plants, 13, 40, 

 528-30, 550-1 ; ferns and lyco- 

 pods, 220-30, 592 ; endemic gen- 

 era and endemic species, 231-5, 

 264-6 ; mountain plants, 269, 

 293-7, 305 ; conifers, 297-306 

 The age of Malayan plants com- 

 prising first the genera widely 

 dispersed over the Pacific, 307- 

 58 ; and then those that are 

 locally dispersed, 359, 360 ; the 

 last comprising Fijian genera 

 found in Hawaii and not in Tahiti, 

 359, 37 I_ 4 ; Fijian genera found 

 in Tahiti and not in Hawaii, 359, 

 380-8 ; and genera found in Fiji, 

 but neither in Hawaii nor in 

 Tahiti, 360, 399-408 . . . The num- 

 ber of Fijian flowering plants, 

 528, 592 . . . The Fijian "diffi- 

 culty," 155, 166, 169, 517 . . . The 

 buoyancy of the seeds of inland 

 plants, 531 

 Fish in the Humboldt current, 600 

 Fitchia, 236, 237-8, 240, 245, 248 

 Fleurya interrupta, 605 

 Flying-foxes : see Bats 

 Focke, W. O., on the dispersal of 



Leguminosas, 150, 417 

 Fogs on the Chilian and Peruvian 



coasts, 475, 481, 490, 492-3, 600 

 Forbes, Dr. H. O., 304, 347, 388 

 Forster on the "Antarctic" flora, 271 

 Fragaria chilensis, 4, 270, 272, 285, 



287-8 

 Fragaria vesca, 536 

 Francolins at high altitudes, 241 

 Franseria, 131, 431, 478-9, 597 

 Freycinetia, 308-9, 319, 331, 504-5, 



509-10 

 Frigate-birds (Fregata), as seed-dis- 



persers, 188, 511 

 Fritillaria meleagris, 537 

 Fruits " difficult " or " impossible " 

 from the standpoint of dispersal, 

 262, 267, 372-3, 379, 388-9, 391, 

 409 ; see under the Fijian flora and 

 the Hawaiian flora 

 Fruit-pigeons (Carpophaga, &c), seeds 

 and fruits eaten by them, limit of size, 



337, 381,389, 400-1, 410; Achras, 

 373 ; Areca, 330 ; Cananga, 393 ; Ca- 

 narium, 372, 400 ; Cassytha, 123, 

 564 ; Coriaria, 292 ; Corynocarpus, 

 508 ; Couthovia, 266, 401 ; Draconto- 

 melon, 372, 400 ; Elaeocarpus, 337, 

 372, 508 ; Eugenia, 350 ; Ficus, 388, 

 504 ; Gnetum, 404 ; Kentia, 330 ; 

 Litsea, 508 ; Mynstica, 403 ; Olea, 

 508 ; Oncocarpus, 266 ; Phyllanthus, 

 326 ; Pisonia, 347 ; Plectronia, 355 ; 

 Podocarpus, 301, 508 ; Premna, 561 ; 

 Psychotria, 314 ; Sapota, 373 ; Sider- 

 oxylon, 373 ; Spondias, 602 ; Vitex, 

 564 ; Ximenia, 1 13. (For additional 

 note on Litsea and Vitex, see Addi- 

 tions and Corrections) 



Fruits, fleshy, 101 



Fulmar-petrel, 581 



Galapagos Islands, flora and avi- 

 fauna, 505 



Galeopsis tetrahit, 28, 537 



Galium aparine, 27, 536, 539 



Galium mollugo, 536 



Galium palustre, 27, 536 



Garcinia, 575 



Gardenia, 308-9, 311, 532-3, 548, 552 



Garuas, 475, 481, 600 



Gatke, H., 151, 506, 593 



Gaudichaud, 385, 434 



Gay, C, on Chilian plants, 477-8 



Geese, as seed-dispersers, 241, 275, 

 283,356, 5H-2, 514 



Geissois, 343, 393, 510, 532 



Geniostoma, 384 



Geological time, 502, 520 



Geophila reniformis, 417, 532, 605 



Geranium, 4, 269, 272, 274-5 



Germination, of floating seeds, 76 ; its 

 connection with vivipary, 78, 84, 87, 

 191, 468, 521 ; effect of previous 

 immersion in sea-water on the 

 germinating capacity of seeds in 

 soil, 25, 539 ; germination in sea- 

 water in temperate latitudes, 35, 

 544 ; germination in sea-water in 

 tropical latitudes, 79-87 ; the pro- 

 cess in Cassalpinia, 191, and in 

 Cuscuta, 595 



Giffard, Mr., 212 



Gilia, 568 



Gill, Rev. Wyatt, 48 



Gizzard-stones in birds, 159 



Glacial epoch, 503, 509, 513 



Glaucium luteum, 35, 90, 536, 539, 543 



544 

 Glaux mantima, 34, 36, 537, 541 

 Gleichenia, 548 



