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FUIS 
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CHRONICLE, 
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we have five genéra with thirty Se in the northern 
hemisphere, two genera with twenty-six species at the 
Cape, ai nineteen genera with 365 species in 
Ре 
а e principal that 4 are к АЗА ог 
бане еп i ns America Nolan М n- 
coacez, Gilliesiaceze, Philesiaceze, Calyceree, and 
Tropzeolaceze, all small ; in America, taken whole, 
Hydrophyllacez, Loasa Sarraceniaceze ; in 
North America and xr nn taken together, Pango: 
liaceæ, Calyca nthac Polemoniaceæ, an 
drangeæ ; in th Mediterrane n basin Cistaceæ and 
Resedaceæ ; in alia sn en e aa Stackhousi- 
aceæ, Epacridaceæ, “Stylidiace oo чар ау A. 
rinaceze, xiaceze ; d at the Cape Bruni- 
aces, Stil æaceæ, and Se ce 
Geographical Range of the Meiotherms cool 
. temperate zone, types of all the three grades are vy 
widely diffused geographically. 
ascending into all the six zones in Britain, to Algeria 
and Sikkim, where it inhabits a belt reachin g from 
11,000 K «€: and 
Azores, n A 
xe reis triviale,—Universal in north temperate 
hemisphere from La apland, Iceland, and Britain, to 
reenl tates ; 
B arbary, St. -Helena, 
feet in w Islands, 
Australia, New ma a Andes of ave Uruguay, 
Chili, Patagonia, Falklands, Tristan d'Acunha. 
Montia нет. АП through Europe, from B 
Spain, and Corsica 
Britain 
ountains (not Eastern 
, Bolivia, and Peru 
sles, 
d Isles, Campbell Isles, New 
m Salizaria. —Through Europe, from Britain 
to Siberia. ké apan, Barbary, West Himalayas, and 
Afghan Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, 
ranada, 
Lycopodium clavatum.—All thr roug the north tem- 
oa zone, тою Lapla » Archangel, and Britain, to 
d a e United States ; Na м Саре Со1опу, 
in Malay 
Fuegia, and, Kerguelen’s Land 
Tristan d’Acunha, Falkland Isles, Sandwich Isles 
Auckland and Campbell Isles, New Zealand, 
i a, Cerastium ae 
llegrana, Oxalis астан, Coty 
bilicus теа europza, Galium РД Scablota 
Succisa, Limosella aquatica,” Sibthorpia europea, 
Solanum nigrum, Trichonema Bulbocodium, Juncus 
Capitatus, Luzula campestris, 
Caryophyllea, Poa lisi esa K 
bromoides зу gigantea, ] 
How clos 
of the: етіѕр 
dnt: by "er me achete in * Europe and 
irent. by the Sar Маран. маен , Ra 
nunculus, tis, M S, Caltha, 
Represented by Different Species in Leroi and 
America, —Atragene, Clematis, Pulsatilla, Thalictrum, 
Trollius, om, Isopyrum, Aguilegia, Delphinium, 
uga. ; 
MC IER to the Old World.—Adonis, Callianthe- 
Oxygraphis, mene Glaucidium, Helle- 
boni. Lege Nigella, miopsis 
у d American, pu European, —Trautvet- 
ct 
e 
А) merican alone. — Hydrastis, Seger rhiza 
> The fo poesis y is a list of t е жашо апа 
rutico: 
Empetrum, Ribes, Cas Myrica, 
Betula, Mp Salix, Suda "Phyliodoce, | bets 
Taxus, iræa, Rubus, stop, Arctostaphylos, 
Androidi, Cassiope, Cassandra 
Genus the Same, but all the Species Distinct. —Tilia, 
Rhus, Rhamnus, Euonymus, Acer, Rosa, Cratæ ægus, 
y СУРЫ 
vibes Fa 
Paitin” nee Que 
op 
Ma will in in 
ia 
e" pU. 
Bee a- 
Baikal, 
malayas (in 
II,000— 15,000 th Dar Straits козын” эй 
Rocky Mountain 
Silene al —Arc c America, Greenland, Lap- 
land, тна Iceland, Feroe, Shetlands, Scot- 
lan d, England, Wales, Norway, en, Alps, 
fondi, Carinthia, 
Pyrei es усаар "Tyrol, 
Rocky Mountain 
Lychnis a pou .— Greenland, е5, d M 
Braemar, Cumberland, Icela nd, S wiss au- 
hiné, Pyrenees, Tyrol, ia, Ural avuria, 
Labrador, Rocky мои. 
d octopetala. n all round the arctic 
zone, Dovrefeld, Iceland, "Meroe: Scotland жил 
Ireland, Swiss Alps Jur А evo Apennin 
Dauphiné, Tyrol, Вада, Carinthia, Scardus, Altai, 
Davuria, Rocky Mountains (in latitude 49° at 7000 
8000 feet). 
We cannot explain the present wide- ans distri- 
bution of these ev aa ridges an s in any 
other way than by suppos hat at эъ former 
period of cold they have been spread over what is 
now the cool ded zone through the con 
НЧА aad that when a warmer c 
come thej retreated to the heights and “Here 
eee tele st 
ery of tei arctic lei ag of the northern 
hemisphere giw d Т southern 
cies cha- 
to th 
the zone o e :—Vesicaria 
Epilobium axis Я æspitosa, Erigero 
lpinus um igrum, тех magellanica 
(irrigua), rom opecurus alpinus, rum _alpinum 
Тизе! tum m subspicatum, and | Lycopodium 
144. 
e geographical - subordinate to the climatic 
араа ^ plants, at the present time, the most 
striking point to notice н to 
ge 
sent distri- 
, are the prin- 
o the ny an exercised 
wn fac suppo 
t eac a ает Chad originated from a ale 
centre, 
2d. That species have originated in different parts 
ot the weet and that the flora of any given tract 
depende largely пра is geo 
d. That 
(or types whic h a s in iiie down to minute 
detail were in existence before the end of the 
secondary period, and have pasted through the very 
great changes in climate and the tive positions of 
and land which have ссий during th 
peri 
th. 
structure, л. also 
ape 
persed i t, 
islands were insulated, and the present 
bution of sea and land was worked out. 3. 
Reports of Societies. 
Royal E pre. August 4.—The Hon, and 
Rev. cawen in the chair.—The Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley, after r reading the awards made by the com- 
mittee es, an 
before bo meeting, called attention to a se pit 
photographs of the onia and Antheridi 
"gardens w: 
aving discovered some Potato Apples 
attacked by the Peronospora, had put one in water, 
and it threw out a 
spores i 
called io a golden-leaved form of Cotisas Laburnum 
shown by Mr. Smith, nurse n, Worcester, and it 
was remarked, as a curious podia - that 
when a bud of this variety was put on the 
green-leaved form used 
were thrown out on the stem below the seat of the 
bud or scion, and even the suckers had come of the 
same rich golden tint. 
Mr, David ibaa: slinging to the prouti E 
variegated shoo tanced a 
which happened pum t thirty у dee ago in Tm un 
of the late Mr. J. C. Lo A plant of the common 
grew over it, and, strange as it may seem, golden shoots 
broke out all over the tree, наа it was still of a perfect 
golden colour. Mr. Wooster further remarked tha 
it was within the син. айа of the Society 
that its officers should put selves in communica- 
tion with committees or міри bodies having charge of 
- formation of new public parks an ens, with 
view to getting more of the n E d gum 
fw wering shrubs planted for the public good 
a lamentable fact that though they had us ‘the 
of Douglas, the brothers Lobb, For 
eat number of the most beauti- 
xm. M 
planting of publ 
and E m "PS ра 
по means of enjoying their great beaut 
RAL COMMITTEE, —Mr, C. Noble in the chair 
others, a great 
ful of Menton flowerin bs, 
seldom or ne NP when the plan 
here was nota v eat ety of ub- 
jects to-day, still, thanks to Messrs. Veitch, Williams, 
Bull, the Council-room presented a very 
Prep Mesue rance, and it w aba on all sides 
that in а соп — nce is анун wn in е new 
ma d that these mind бей will hark 
back to ‘the time when e displays as we had to-day 
were the and not exceptional, as has latterly "p 
the case.  First- жа; were award 
 Messrs. аре Veitch s Sons for Adiantum prince 
ik 
g-growing Fern, which 
we shall sho ortly figure and describe ; for "Xiscphila 
P (hort V a handsome new 
regularly edil pe tll from the 
we or Ree епа Taylori 
D. magnific . Moo 
very fi iro iS habit ; 
and broad, somewhat blun 
e narrow, almost 
straight-leaved К Pris of Pleastag colour, but distinct 
egan ат dx reviously shown by Mr. 
Ва ull; and for x Rhod ron Prince Leopold, a 
PA satis Ae shaded wid sa mon. The same 
orm of o c C 
Newmunster, Zurich, for Begonia Froebeli, a tuberous 
rooted species from Eucador, with intense crimson- 
