quite different. A remarkable fact 

 ponderance of ferns in the new Hon 

 three years no less than eleven spe 

 themselves and formed the predom' 

 new vegetation. In our visit to t! 

 island, where the reestablishment 



this preponderance of ferns was va- 

 in the other parts of the island they 

 great part supplanted by the plume 



drift zone of the beach Treub four 

 seedling plants, and in the central 

 eight, two of which were the same as 

 Of the remaining six, four were 

 grasses, all forms which would be 

 by the wind. These phanerogams, 

 less numerous as individuals than \ 

 A series of visits to the islands wat 

 but unfortunately the plan could not 



direction. In the interval of more 

 had elapsed since the first visit the 1 

 greatly increased and most of the 

 with vegetation which began to sin 



