ii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1911 
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mountainous interior. That some of these 
forms of vegetation had been carried there 
by the ocean was indicated by the fact 
that seeds of littoral plants were found 
scattered on the shore. 
As to the other plants, the history of 
their appearance upon the island seems to 
have been as follows: First, a thin film 
of a simple form of vegetable life, derived 
from floating germs in the atmosphere, 
covered the pumice stone and, through 
chemical action, brought its surface into 
a condition fitted for the nourishment of 
ferns and later of flowering plants. The 
seeds of these were brought by the winds 
and birds and, as soon as the soil was 
capable of supporting them, they took 
root and, bathed in the equatorial sun- 
shine, began the work of clothing the bar- 
ren island anew. 
Renewed attention has recently been 
called to this reappearance of vegetation 
on Krakatoa in connection with the gen- 
eral subject of the origin of plants that in- 
habit islands. Nature shows herself en- 
tirely capable of conveying the germs of 
plant life for long distances by means of 
the ocean and the atmosphere, aided by 
the birds. When man comes to her as- 
sistance, the work goes on apace. 
Of more than eighty species of plants 
inhabiting the Laccadive Islands, which 
are simply the tops of a group of sub- 
merged mountain peaks in the Arabian 
Sea, half of whose inhabitants have been, 
at times, swept off by storm waves, it is 
believed that fifty-six have been intro- 
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the winds, and two by birds. 
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modern science than the story of what has 
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