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Candolle, A. de, 76, 89, 120, 152, 159, 166, 



172, 193, 196, 207, 216, 362, 480 

 Cannaceae, 315 



Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas; 

 doubling the southern extreme of 

 Africa by seed and bottle-drift, 39, 62, 

 63, 78, 81 



Cape Horn, doubled by bottle-drift, 63, 

 78, 81 



Cape-pigeon (Daption capensis), as a seed- 



disperser, 499 

 Cape Race. Ste under Newfoundland 

 bottle-drift. 



Vorde Islands ; bottles dropped over 



in vicinity, 57, 6/, 69; Acacia farnesi- 

 ana, 170; Cassia fistula, 155 

 Carapa, 141, 228, 309 ; C. guianensis, 3-5, 

 11-13, 18, 86, 90, 141; C. moluccensis 

 and C. obovata, 141-143 

 Cardot, J., the Mosses of the Azores, 440 

 Carex compared with Sphagnum : 



Influence of the divergence of the 

 continents on their distribution, 

 332-358 ; both respond to the same 

 law, 332; comparison of the East 

 and West Hemispheres in the north, 

 335; connections of the South 

 American Carex and Sphagnum 

 floras, 335 ; the stream of arctic and 

 subarctic species down the Andes 

 to Cape Horn, 337 ; the Carex 

 and Sphagnum connections between 

 South America, Africa, and the 

 Australian and New Zealand region, 

 339; the isolation of Africa, 341, 

 342; the outside connections and 

 sources of the African Peat-mosses 

 and Carices, 344-346; Sphagnum 

 and Carex in Australia and New 

 Zealand, with their Asiatic and South 

 American connections and the bridg- 

 ing over of the gap in Malaya, 347- 

 353; the insular factor, 343; the 

 distribution of the Carices by birds 

 and of the Peat-mosses by winds, 

 354; summary, 355. See also Africa, 

 South America, Australia, etc. 

 Carex acutiformis, 342, 345, 346; brun- 

 nea, 345, 350; breviculmis, 350, 351; 

 canescens, 338, 339, 352; cernua, 345, 

 346, 349; darwinii, 340, 349, 352; 

 divisa, 342, 345, 346; extensa, 342, 



345, 346; flava {see note below), 371, 

 380, 381, 387, 402, 420 (included here 

 amongst the subaquatic plants, though 

 it is also abundant in the wet moors); 

 lagopina, 351, 352; macloviana, 338, 

 339; microglochin, 338, 501; ceded 

 {see note below), 339, 341, 345, 346, 

 349, 351, 352; ceded, var. cataractae, 



346, 351; pseudo-cyperus, 339, 342, 

 351, 352 ; pumila, 339, 340, 351, 352 ; 

 stellulata, 351, 371, 375, 378, 387, 403 



(its fruits float for a year and more 

 and occur in the floating drift of ponds ; 

 the plant's name should be associated 

 with Carex flava on p. 420); trifida, 

 340, 349, 352 ; vulpina, 342, 345, 346. 

 (Single references to many other species 

 will be found on pp. 338-352.) 



Note. — Carex ceded, regarded by 

 Bentham and Hooker as a form of the 

 Linnean species, C. flava, is separated 

 by Kukenthal. Both are European 

 and North American; but C. ceded, 

 in the form of var. cataractae, extends 

 to the southern hemisphere (Chile, 

 Patagonia, South Africa, Tasmania, 

 New Zealand). 

 Caribbean Sea; traversed by bottle- 

 drift and seed-drift brought by the 

 equatorial currents from off the West 

 African coasts, the Amazon estuary, 

 Brazil, the Guianas, the Orinoco, etc., 

 58-61, 73, 75, 444, 445; bottle-drift 

 from the Caribbean Sea to Europe, 59, 

 76 ; mingling in this sea of drift brought 

 by the north and main equatorial 

 currents from African and South 

 American waters, 62, 73 

 Carreiro, Bruno T., on the Azorean flora, 



359, 364, 385, 427 

 Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower), 492 

 Caryocar nuciferum (Butter-nut), 28, 30 

 Cashew-nut. See Anacardium occiden- 

 tals 



Casks, drifted by currents, 50, 76, 81, 299, 

 481 



Cassia fistula, 6, 11-13, 28, 36, 152; C. 



grandis, 4, 11, 13, 16, 152 

 Cassytha, 171, 207; C. filiformis ( = 



americana), 87, 92, 191 

 Castillo, Drake del; on Pacific Island 



plants, 157, 171 

 Catesbcea, 287 



Catesby, M. ; on Genipa clusiifolia, 210 ; 

 on the Manchineel of the Bahamas, 

 286 ; on the iguanas of the Bahamas, 

 487 



Cattegat, fruits of Calluna vulgaris, etc, 



blown across, 425 

 Cattle, spreading the seeds of Acacia 



farnesiana, 169, and those of Pithe- 



colobium saman (Morris in " Nature," 



March 15, 1888). 

 Cauliflory, 147, 211 



Cayman Islands; seed-drift and bottle- 

 drift brought by the equatorial currents, 

 8, 61, 76, 130, 145 ; electric -light bulbs, 

 165; Guilandina, 138, 456; Cakile, 

 186; Cassytha, 192; Coccoloba uvi- 

 fera, 197; Conocarpus erectus, 201; 

 Ipomcea carnosa, 218, and I. tuba, 221 ; 

 Mammea americana, 145; Morinda 

 royoc, 225 ; Sophora tomentosa, 237 ; 

 Suriana maritima, 240; Tournefortia 



