GENERAL INDEX 



619 



Memecylon, 376 



Mentha aquatica, 28, 537, 545 



Menyanthes trifoliata, 537 



Meryta, 381 



Mesembryanthemum, 131, 478 



Mesozoic continent in the Western 

 Pacific, 303-6, 503, 509, 514, 519 



Metrosideros, 259, 333, 341, 357, 361, 

 510, 533, 549, 553, 554, 604 



Meyer, Dr., 388 



Mez, C, on the genus Embelia, 363 



Mezoneuron, 146, 363, 533 



Micromelum, 393, 532 



Miers, Mr. J., on the seed-structure 

 of Barring tonia, 575 



Millett, Mr., on the seed-buoyancy of 

 Convolvulus soldanella, 91, 543, 566 



Milner, Sir W., on seeds in petrels, 581 



Mimosa pudica, 488 



Mimusops kauki, 374 



Miquel, on Scirpodendron, 406 ; on 

 Carapa, 564 



Moa, its crop-stones, 159 



Moenchia erecta, 536 



Mollendo (Peru), 482, 598, 599 



Momordica charantia, 532 



Montia fontana, 536 



Moreno Bay (Chile), its beach-drift, 480 



Morinda ; relation between the shore 

 and inland species, 18, 134, 135 ; 

 inland species, 42, 45, 135, 532, 534 



Morinda citrifolia ; distribution, 18, 

 52, 552, 563; station, 551; inland 

 extension, 49, 121, 547, 548, 553, 

 569; buoyancy of pyrenes, 18, 107, 

 112, 121, 123, 124, 529, 531, 534, 

 569 ; their occurrence in river-drift, 



79, 435 

 Moseley, Prof., 242, 276, 286, 403, 434, 



579 

 Mountain bananas, 412, 414, 427 

 Mountain climates of the Pacific 



islands, 210-1, 214-5, 218, 582 

 Mountain ferns of the Pacific islands, 



225-9, 593 



Mountain floras of the Pacific islands, 

 268-306, 518-9 



Mountain-shadows, 586 



Mucosity of seeds, 102, 277, 417, 567 



Mucuna (genus) ; abortive germina- 

 tion of seeds in sea-water, 76, 79-82, 

 202 ; long flotation experiments, 80, 

 81, 531 ; cause of seed-buoyancy, 106, 

 109, III ; dispersal by currents, 80, 

 81, 430 ; seeds in river-drift, 435, 

 488 ; in beach-drift, 430, 437-8, 489, 



499 

 Mucuna gigantea, 44, 8r, 94, 109, 115, 



529, 531, 552, 554, 562, 563 



Mucuna urens, 80, 106, in, 123, 430 



499, 531, 533, 534, 562, 563 

 Mueller, Dr. K., 224 

 Mueller, Baron von, 394 

 Musa, 412, 414 

 Musa ensete, 414, 436 

 Mussajnda frondosa, 425, 532, 548 

 Mutations, 383 

 Myoporum, 271, 272, 274-5, 343, 533, 



553-4 

 Myosotis, 2,7, 537 

 Myriophyllum, 2)7-, 536 

 Myristica, 391, 402, 532 

 Myrmecodia, 402, 472, 532 



Nadeaud, Dr. J., on Tahitian plants, 

 216, 312, 426, 578 



Naias, 362, 364, 367, 409. 520, 537, 556 ; 

 see Additions and Corrections 



Nam a, 362 



Narthecium, 537 



Nasturtium, 37, 536 



Nathorst, Prof, 511 



Natural Selection, 105, 117, 119-29 



Nature-Study, loi 



Nehtris, 381, 382, 532, 548 



Nepeta cataria, ) . , ,„ 



Nepeta glechoma,/-^' 5j7, 5^7, 506 



Nephelium, 161, 532 



Neraudia, 263 



Nertera depressa, 270, 272, 285, 286, 

 288, 290, 292-4, 296-7, 305 



Nesopanax, 265 



Nestor meridionalis, its vegetable 

 food, 321, 343 



New Caledonia, 298, 301-2,341,395-6, 

 420 



New Zealand birds and seed-dispersal, 

 296, 321, 337 



New Zealand flora ; from the stand- 

 point of dispersal, 507-8 ; its bear- 

 ing on the continental theory, 

 508-9, 512, 514 



New Zealand plants in the Pacific 

 islands, 271-2, 287, 290, 295, 297 

 305, 315, 336-8, 341,357, 366, 503-4, 

 507-9 



Nicobar-pigeon, as a seed-disperser, 8, 



i59 

 Nipa fruticans, 66, 68, 108, 472 



550 

 Nolana, 131, 431, 477, 479, 480, 596 

 Norman, J. M., on Scandinavian 



beach-drift, 430, 432, 539, 543 

 Norwegian beach-drift : sec Scan 



dinavia 

 Nothocestrum, 262-3 

 Nototrichium, 262-3 

 Nova Zembla ; plant-dispersal, 5 1 1 



