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others peculiar to the Antarctic islands, and many to New Zealand, 
Fuegia, and Tasmania. 
Each group of islands hence forms a botanical region, more or less 
definable by its plants as well as by its oceanic boundaries; precisely 
as a continuous area like Australia or South Africa does. There is 
however this difference, that whereas the Natural Orders that give a 
table kingdom one to another. It is not true in every sense that 
all existing nature appears to the naturalist as an harmonious whole ; 
each species combines by its own peculiarities two or more others more 
i 
just as the flora of an intermediate spot of land connects those of two 
as 
cles must hence create an hiatus in our systems, and I believe that it is 
— subject of their possible transport ; an the conviction was soon 
Orced i 
Where), there were such peculiarities in the plants so circumstanced, as 
fendered many of them the least likely of all to have availed them- 
selves of what possible chances of transport there may have been. As 
les they were either not so abundant in individuals, or not prolific 
®nough to have been the first to offer themselves for chance transport, 
oF their seeds presented no facilities for migration,* or were singularly 
Perishable from feeble vitality, soft or brittle integuments, the presence 
Oil that soon became rancid, or from having a fleshy albumen that 
Pt ig of the Composite, common to Lord Auckland’s Group, Fuegia, and Ker- 
with n's Land, none fave ats pappus (or seed-down) at all! of Ge ooe species 
none are m to two of these islands! 
common 
Stoonp Sznizs, Vol. XVII, No. 51.—May, 1854. 
