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GENERAL INDEX 



Crudya, 83, 84, 204, 206, 326 ; Cr. spicata, 



3, 16, 86, 90, 106, 204 

 Crueger, Dr., on Sacoglottis amazonica, 



134 



Cryptogams. See Spores. 



Cuba; seed-drift brought by the equa- 

 torial currents, 8; bottle-drift, 52, 56, 

 58, 61, 463, 466; forest-trees, 112, 117, 

 215; submarine fresh-water springs, 

 497 



Cucurbita, 145 ; C. lagenaria, 146 

 Culcita fern. See Dicksonia culcita. 

 Currents, as illustrated by bottle-drift. 

 See under Bottle-drift, Atlantic, Aus- 

 tralia, Equatorial Currents, Gulf 

 Stream, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, 

 etc. 



(cold) and aridity, 271, 272, 275 



Cycas circinalis, 5 



Cyperacese, 105, 106, 109, 353 



Cyperus, 15, 353; C. brunneus, 85, 278- 

 281, 291, 451, 453; C. compressus, 

 491 ; C. elatus, 105, 106 ; C. esculentus, 

 491, 492 



Dabney, American Consul-general in the 



Azores, 362, 372 

 Dahl, F., on the arctic centre of dispersal, 



325 



Dana, J. D., Bahamian geology, 255, 262, 

 263, 276 



Daphne; dispersal by birds, 417, 418; 



D. gnidium, 405 

 laureola, 370, 374, 375, 386, 392, 



401, 405, 428 

 Daption capensis (Cape-pigeon), 499 

 Darrell, J. H., on Bermudian plants, 



197 



Dartmoor vegetation, compared with that 

 of the moors of Pico, 371, 376, 386 



Darwin, C. ; petrels of St. Kilda swallow- 

 ing West Indian drift-seeds, 32 ; West 

 Indian drift-seeds on the Azores, 37, 

 122 ; plants of Keeling Atoll, 170, 448 ; 

 coral reef theory, 255; dispersal of 

 plants from the north, 327 ; Darwinian 

 evolution, 319, 322 



Datura stramonium, 290 



Daussy, on bottle-drift, 46, 69, 81 



Davey, F. Hamilton, on seeds of Entada 

 scandens on the Cornish coast, 28 



Davis, Ains worth, quotation cited con- 

 cerning currents, 39 



Strait; bottle-drift, 55, 79, 484, 



496; casks from a wrecked ship, 50. 

 See Greenland. 



Dayssy. See Daussy. 



Deane, H., on the Tertiary flora of 

 Australia, 318 



Debes, L. J., on the occurrence in the 

 Faroe Islands of the seeds of Entada 

 scandens, 21, 23, 33, 34, 41, 43 



Decaisne, J., on Mucuna pruriens, 458 



Deffarges, M., bottle-drift on the Chilian 



coast, 300 

 De l'Escluse, 20. See Clusius. 

 Denmark; West Indian seeds on the 



coast, 27, 36, 37 ; bottle-drift, 53 

 Derelicts and currents, 48, 50, 68, 69, 72, 



472, 473 



Descourtilz, on Calophyllum calaba, 156 



Desmanthus, 326 



Deutsche Seewarte, bottle-drift, 47, 64, 

 66, 74, etc. See under Schott. 



Devonshire; seeds and fruits from the 

 West Indies and elsewhere in the 

 beach-drift, 28-30, 123, 134; pelagic 

 organisms stranded, 29; Cakile mari- 

 tima, 185, 188 



Dicksonia culcita, 370, 375, 380, 382, 

 383, 428 



Dieffenbachia seguine (Dumb-cane), 107 

 Differentiation theory, 313-322, 323, 329 

 " Difficult " plants. See Problem plants. 

 Dildo, name of a species of Opuntia, 278, 

 287 



Dimorphandra mora, seeds in beach- 

 drift, 12, 13 



Dioclea, 133; D. guianensis, D. pana- 

 mensis, D. violacea, 132; D. reflexa, 

 4, 7, 11-13, 25, 26, 33, 34, 86, 91, 130, 

 455 



Dioscorides, on the small Acacia, 172 

 Distribution ; its controlling factors, 323- 



330 ; discontinuity, 83, 94, 326, 330. 

 Dixon, C, on Brazilian drift seeds in the 



Fulmar petrel, 32 

 Dodonsea, 171, 193 



viscosa, 86, 92, 109, 198, 206, 237, 



286, 288, 291; variety, D. burmanni, 

 109, 206 



Dolichos urens (= Mucuna urens), 32, 35 



Dondia, 453 



Donkey-eye bean (Mucuna urens), 458 

 Dracaena aurea, 487-489 ; D. ombet, 488 



draco (Dragon-tree), 408, 410, 412, 



487 



Drepanocarpus lunatus, 11, 86, 88, 90, 

 159 



Drew, on denitrifying bacteria, 502 

 Drift-wood, in high latitudes in the North 



Atlantic, 35, 40, 45 

 Dripping cliffs in the Azores, 497, 498 

 Droseracese, 315 



Drouet, H., on the Azorean flora, 359, 

 363, 368, 382, 383, 385, 394, 418, 428, 

 432, 435-437, 440 



Druce, G. C, on Campanula vidalii, 427; 

 on other Azorean plants, 364, 434, 440 



Drude, O., on southern floras, 294 



Ducks, Wild, as seed-dispersers, 420 



Dumb-cane, 107 



Dwarfing of trees and shrubs; in the 

 Azores, 367, 373, 374, 382, 386, 387, 

 428^32, 437; in the Turks Islands, 

 202, 279, 283, 446 



