Address of A. R. Wallace ai the Glasgow Meeting. 367 
abundance of dark blue flowers, was also plentiful; while a 
White-flowered Liliaceous plant formed large patches on the hill- 
Sides. Besides these there were two species of woody Com- 
Posite with conspicuous heads of yellow blossoms, and a 
“pecies of white-flowered myrtle also abundant; so that, on the 
Whole, flowers formed a rather conspicuous feature in the aspect 
the vegetation of Juan Fernandez. : é 
But this fact—which at first sight seems entirely at variance 
