342 Notice of Dr. Hooker's Flora of New Zealand. 
quickly decayed.* Added to the fact that of all the plants in the re- 
a. 2 ras of the Antarctic islands those common to any two of 
them e the zo unlikely of all to emigrate, and that there were 
plenty ot; species possessing unusual facilities, which had not availed 
themselves of them, there was another important point, namely, the 
to some prea where the available soil is pre-occupie 
yond the bare fact of he, difficulty of accounting by any other 
means for the presence of the same species in two of the islands, there 
missed it as a mere speculation which, till it gained some su 
philosophical principles, could only be regarded as shelving a "fic: 
ty; whilst the unstable doctrine, that would account for the creation 
each species on each island by progressive development on the spot, 
was contradicted by every fact. 
It was with these conclusions before me, that I was led to speculate 
on the possibility of the plants of the Southern Ocean being the Te 
ains o ra 
Antarctic genera and species may be the vestiges of a flora character 
ized by the predominance of plants which are now scattered throughout 
the southern islands. An allusion to these speculations was made 1? 
upon, and their resemblance to the summits of a submerged mountalo 
chain was pointed out; but beyond the facts that the general features 
intervening land, there was nothing i in the shape of evidence by pera 
my speculation could be suppor ned I am indebted to the invalua 
labors of Lyell and Darwin,+ for the facts that could alone have gi 
* Of the seeds sent to England from the Antarctic regions, or transported by my 
self between be several ar: almost all sabe ed during transmission. and Co- 
t Se s ‘Jo a Naturalist,’ ssays on Voleanic Islands 
The proofs of ves ame of Chal ad Patagonia ia having been 
cntontah , for several hundred miles, to elevations varying between 400 the first- 
mdr pe period of the sae ey of existing shells, will be found Xe ig 
acta pero lt nyo orks, which should be in the hands of ev: pit ex 
atura’ only from its sestainice important observations on pa 
sr et ted Nell ct a ed 
on tory of the Southern materials 
influenced and prone furthered Gv encgrees and I feel it the more necessary 
