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ur common wild Hoolish evergreens. Пех 
rede mel the Holly of Central Eu urope, is in this 
way rea Bux in the Mediterranean region by Пех 
e commo 
australe, = cinarum as C. aureum, 
Raped Trichomanes as A. anceps, and A. Adian 
nigrum as ОШ , all o ich have n 
regarded by writers of аут! repute as distinct species 
In the w ia alpina of the arctic-alpine 
zone rep maritima temperate 
shores, and Cochlearia grcenlandica represents Coch 
lant 
u a 
in this way ripe one another i in Europe, 
thee Himala yas an North Ame 
or Aucuparia answers 
P. americana ; the Old World Prunus 
t d 
Padus to т New World P. virginiana and serotina ; 
and Apium graveolens and perdes Spicant the 
northern hemisphere answer to Apium australe and 
Lomaria alpina of the а Ged irate It wou 
_ be easy to adduce striking cases of 
of de eher sepu: allied forms in structure place 
under different climates and under different Rope 
phical areas, n genera, tribes, and orders, as wel 
species, and they farnish another strong Pathan їп 
favour of the incor of dadis tion. 
— When w ped pu wis of priam 
and thei 
ойе rs wil species 
ОО that exist in Britain proper which are 
еп Eriocaulon sept 
"C Ere America, a 
orreri, Rubus L 
n (му, were 
grow upon 
same mm qe our cold-fearing hygrophilo 
ora 
and years "WP. his been 
m the ty scar by the German Ocean, 
it is Medias argument against the idea of. а ra pid 
spo an 15 differentiation ‹ с урар. ants ; 
еа alae tres na the mi w 
; im strongly upon юа 
e conclusion. that rea e dire 
: "i fully 
рас fact Bere land ad sea acquired their 
present 
We ar due find that uM Piece of endemic 
types h 
rm 3 
es taken together ; so that the 
Madeira and t 
flora of all these islands oce cmd forms part of 
that of the Mediterran n. Out of 130 Thalami- 
flore in Mauritius and Par быа I find that 
upwards of thirty are endemic те 
stinct of all gii rrr forar 
ү ысы Кы ретін plats 
| Equisetacez, lost long ago. 
‘Brazil, ascen о 
The pe = s earlier 
secondary series are alm xclusively 
cads Єй niferze, but it seems sate a odnclukon 
fly established, that a a iat pons of the present 
generic types were in existence before lose of the 
iie of а 
w 
nes a ERY i 
ulus, 
Myrica, уам s, Andr m Diospyros, Panax, 
s, Sapindus, and Каро Since then the 
hd tertiary barisi he ha aving deposits 
spread over ка lower mh. of all the e Pre continents. 
in Chili at a height of 1500 feet, in 
the present sea-level. In Britain the JU 
nted very imperfectly, _ we have 
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ЧЕ rm types— 
race 
Combret. i Tree Ferns, Cinnamon 
phants, hippopotami, and rhinoceroses. 
latitudes there is every reason to believe that late in 
the кайгу period the sea ты up to a height of 
1500 feet in the North of England, when the present 
rint nly and ridges with an arctic 
climate, and that there was a period of cold when 
such plants as Salix ГЕРЕ and Betula nana came 
down in the South of England to the present sea-level, 
and that at a perdue iste date the sea was not 
arate Gre t Britain and Ireland 
curred since a large propor o the gen 
as we now have them, have been in existence. 
Geo, eae dem a4 irae within the Bounds TA 
their сане маг this head І * ill o 
attempt t indic cate Ed cursory way t x d 
extent the | Botanical ma are now restricted to A en 
cular geographical areas within 
a 
the estu which they have through climatic c limi. 
мөзү? Range o p "Wacrotherms. ~The 
» more consolidated geogra- 
other — "X - consists 
5 mber of 
charpcteistieally, Mas TO therm species o of the higher 
orders, which are common to all the three continents, 
is not less than 300 or aco and the geographical 
range of many of them is thoroughly cosmopolitan, as 
the following examples will indica 
Linn. gei indica, L.), a 
opical America Jin 
eiro and 
Peru, ascending to 3000 Fernando 
Noronha, D P me e Viti, Isle oe Pines, and 
r groups in Polynesia, North Australia, Mala ay 
tice South "China, Philipines, India from Сөп to 
e 
Mauritius Com con 
Чаеша Africa rom “Raft raria to Nubia, ADU atid 
Senegal 
Ximenia americana, Linn. (= elliptica, Forst.).— 
b, 
A spiny shore shrub, 1 520 feet high, vith a ш 
ыа. Pom. Еола und. Уг Еа 
pe Columbia, and Peru ; Society and Fi Tiles, 
Samoa, New Caled North Au 
Malay Isles, Penang, Tavoy, Ceylon, and Pestis 
India; Seychelles, Nubia to Zambesi Land, Senegal, 
Guinea, and la. 
Tephrosia purpurea, Pers. (= T. pisca! 
T. leptostachya, D.C.). —A pese Bea like 
herb, with wiry slender stems and pinnate coriaceous 
aves.— North Mexico and mal 
i t in the Andes ; 
common in Polynesia and through North Australia to 
New South Wales 
springs), 
‘Formos, 
in Australia, re 
Hinton; South China, Nagasake, Ce 
Sey Col elles, Mauritin s P esie East 
Comoros, а Е. olony, "Guinea Angol 
байра i y Angola, Azores, SC 
Ma Md o of these cosmopolitan y Marrom for want 
of proper comparison, hav n described in lo 
вири und u i 
names, The Te Qon 
S 
Mal e, wie in olvulaceze, Cyperacez. 
Graminez, and Fer piss ber е Me 
ron’. Sean erie Macrotherm spec There 
great m es common to pr i Africa 
сне do п е іс iderable 
number, such as Ecastophyllum Brownei and mo 
taria, Paull pinnata, Hydr le bonariensis, 
only large natural orders restricted to ше Ем fig: 
orld are Bromeliacee an 
America, and Dipterocarpez to Asia aid А Africa, 0 
small d or tribes the fo Dr are endemic :— 
Vochys Humiri i 
macez in n Aiit ; and 
Apostasiacez,, Aquilariaceze, Nepen 
cacez in the Old Wor z Of the s "idm Mal. 
pighiacee, Melastom and = ores only 
occur in the Old World to a small exten 
dem ges = P Malo TÉ 
temperate roken up in its prisad | 
geographical а areas s ud. ку of the other € andi T 
r 
Meso 
ythrum byssopifoliutà pe Parie. 
ilis. 
rper Ayssopifoium.—Missisppi ue Mexico, 
hili, Juan Fernandez, h Brazil, te Video, 
Sandwich Isles, New Ze ala == Van Diem Mes Ae 
emperate Australia, Cape Colony, North China, 
Анны олен South Europe to Central Russia, 
lgi 
Belgium, and England, Barbary States, 
Canaries, jen 
Parietaría debilis. — Southern United States, Mexico, | 
Andes of New Granada, Bolivia and Peru, 
Uruguay, Mendoza, Buenos s Ayres, Norfolk Island, 
New and, Tasm rs ЖЩ e Australia, 
mores, mountains of uinea and 
Com mo 
Abyssinia, Madeira’ and Сале per the Medit- _ 
entral Siberia, | 
terranean region to Asia Maa 
Afghanist and a mala is where it 
A I AS rent, Dm 
a great many t em of different A es 
that cities ima: the south hemisphere 
this zone, distant E d Cape Colony, rr й 
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exira-tropic th America now are 
another. Of this kind in species are Apium australe, 
Triglochint 
tiaceze, roteaceze А which are two consi 
orders nearly restricted to these three south temperate 
floras, t ~ latter containing forty genera, and upwards 
of six all bushes and trees of very 
ps отб ант habit and ынагы Over 
above this, the alliance of the ith extra- 
out 
ua die and : 
e, Bie Dianthus, Matthiola, Ballot» — 
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tribe Ruteæ, wi genera fo 
the northern hemisphere; the tribe 
8o species at the 
genera and I 
кйш 
tribe Boroniez with 
