GENERAL INDEX 



619 



Memecylon, 376 



Mentha aquatica, 28, 537, 545 



Menyanthes trifoliata, 537 



Meryta, 381 



Mesembryanthemum, 131, 478 



Mesozoic continent in the Western 

 Pacific, 303-6, 503, 509, 514, 519 



Metrosideros, 259, 333, 341, 357, 361. 

 510. 533> 549, 553, 554, 604 



Meyer, Dr., 388 



Mez, C., on the genus Embeha, 363 



Mezoneuron, 146, 363, 533 



Micromelum, 393, 532 



Miers, Mr. J., on the seed-structure 

 of I5arringtonia, 575 



Millett, Mr., on the seed-buoyancy of 

 Convolvulus soldanella, 91, 543, 566 



Milner, Sir W., on seeds in petrels, 581 



Mimosa pudica, 488 



Mimusops kauki, 374 



Miquel, on Scirpodendron, 406 ; on 

 Carapa, 564 



Moa, its crop-stones, 159 



Moenchia erecta, 536 



Mollendo (Peru), 482, 598, 599 



Momordica charantia, 532 



Montia fontana, 536 



Moreno Bay (Chile), its beach-drift, 480 



Morinda ; relation between the shore 

 and inland species, 18, 134, 135 ; 

 inland species, 42, 45, 135, 532, 534 



Morinda citrifolia ; distribution, 18, 

 52, 552, 563 ; station, 551 ; inland 

 extension, 49, 121, 547, 548, 553, 

 569 ; buoyancy of pyrenes, i8, 107, 

 112, 121, 123, 124, 529, 531, 534, 

 569 ; their occurrence in river-drift, 



79, 435 

 Moseley, Prof., 242, 276, 286, 403, 434, 



579 

 Mountain bananas, 412, 414, 427 



Mountain climates of the Pacific 



islands, 210-1, 214-5, 218, 582 



Mountain ferns of the Pacific islands, 



225-9, 593 



Mountain floras of the Pacific islands 

 268-306, 518-9 



Mountain-shadows, 586 



Mucosity of seeds, 102, 277, 417, 567 



Mucuna (genus) ; abortive germina- 

 tion of seeds in sea-water, 76, 79-82, 

 202 ; long flotation experiments, 80, 

 81,531; cause of seed-buoyancy, 106, 

 109, III ; dispersal by currents, 80, 

 81, 430 ; seeds in river-drift, 435, 

 488 ; in beach-drift, 430, 437-8, 489, 



499 

 Mucuna gigantea, 44, 81, 94, 109, 115, 



529, 531, 552, 554, 562, 563 



Mucuna urens, 80, 106, m, 123, 430 



499, 531, 533, 534, 562, 563 

 Mueller, Dr. IC, 224 

 Mueller, Baron von, 394 

 Musa, 412, 414 

 Musa ensete, 414, 436 

 Mussaenda frondosa, 425, 532, 548 

 Mutations, 383 

 Myoporum, 271, 272, 274-5, 343, 533, 



553-4 

 Myosotis, 37, 537 

 Myriophyllum, 37, 536 

 Myristica, 391, 402, 532 

 Myrmecodia, 402, 472, 532 



Nadeaud, Dr. J., on Tahitian plants, 



216, 312, 426, 578 

 Naias, 362, 364, 367, 409. 520, 537, 556 ; 



see Additions and Corrections 

 Nama, 362 

 Narthecium, 537 

 Nasturtium, 37, 536 

 Nathorst, Prof, 511 

 Natural Selection, 105, 117, 119-29 

 Nature-Study, loi 

 Nelitris, 381, 382, 532, 548 



Set"g?^:£^a,}^«'"7,567,568 



Nephelium, 161, 532 



Neraudia, 263 



Nertera depressa, 270, 272, 285, 286, 



288, 290, 292-4, 296-7, 305 

 Nesopanax, 265 

 Nestor meridionalis, its vegetable 



food, 321, 343 

 New Caledonia, 298, 301-2, 341, 395-6, 



420 

 New Zealand birds and seed-dispersal, 



296, 321, 337 



New Zealand flora ; from the stand- 

 point of dispersal, 507-8 ; its bear- 

 ing on the continental theory, 

 508-9, 512, 514 



New Zealand plants in the Pacific 

 islands, 271-2, 287, 290, 295, 297 

 305, 315, 336-8, 341,357, 366, 503-4, 

 507-9 



Nicobar-pigeon, as a seed-disperser, 8, 



^59 

 Nipa fruticans, 66, 68, 108, 472 



550 

 Nolana, 131, 431, 477, 479, 480, 596 

 Norman, J. M., on Scandinavian 



beach-drift, 430, 432, 539, 543 

 Norwegian beach-drift : see Scan 



dinavia 

 Nothocestrum, 262-3 

 Nototrichium, 262-3 

 Nova Zembla ; plant-dispersal, 511 



