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The chief character is now determined by plants im- 

 ported from hot climates, and cultivated, such as, Musa 

 Paradisiaca, Musa sapientum, Caladium esculentum. Cac- 

 tus Tuna, Opuntia, Convolvulus Batatas, Agave Ameri- 

 cana, from America. — Physalis Peruviana, Sida carpinifolia, 

 Abutilon, Melochia pyramidata have likewise been intro- 

 duced here from the American continent. — Arundo Donax 

 (perhaps native?), Phcenix dactylifera, Olea Europaea, Ce- 

 ratonia Siliqua, Punica Granatum, Ficus Carica, brought 

 from North Africa, or Southern Europe. 



SECOND REGION. ' :> 



The Canaries : European cultivation, from one thou- 

 sand two hundred to two thousand five hundred feet ; 

 mean temperature 17.50*' cent. 

 Madeira : Zone of the Vine, Fruit, and Corn, from seven 

 hundred to two thousand three hundred feet; mean 

 temperature 17.02^ cent. 

 The greater pai't of the plants living here, as well as the 

 vine and corn, seem to have been brought from Asia and 

 the South of Europe. (Those species belonging to the 

 North of Europe are printed in small Roman characters ; 

 those of the South of Europe and North Africa, in Italics ,• 

 and those peculiar to the Canaries and Madeira, in italic 



SMALL CAPILALS.) 



Carix muricata; Scirpus setaceus ; Poa pratensis; Briza 

 media, maxima; Phalaris CANARIENSIS ; Glyceria flui- 

 tans ; Andropogon hirtum ; Brachypodium pinnatum, dis- 

 /ac%z<»2; Agropyrum repens; Hordeum murinum ; Triodia 

 decumbens ; Achyranthes nivea -, Chenopodium am- 

 BROSIOIDES ; Urtica urens ; Plantago major; Echium vul- 

 gare; Solanum ngrum, Pseudocapsicum ; Sherardia 

 arvensis ; Sonchus oleraceus ; Cripis tectorum, Coronopi- 

 FOLIA ; Scolymus maculatus ; Calendula arvensis ; dehor itim 



