GENERAL INDEX 



517 



Hochstetter, C. (father and son) ; on the 

 Azorean flora, 359, 362, 363, 365, 370, 

 376, 385, 389, 392, 428, 440, 491, 492 ; 

 zones of vegetation of Pico, 368, 376 ; 

 vertical ranges of plants, 362, 363, 376, 

 425, 428-430, 432-438 



Hog-Gum tree. See Symphonia globuli- 

 fera. 



Hog-Plum. See Spondias lutea 

 Hollies. See Ilex. 



Honduras; bottle-drift, 57, 58, 61, 75. 

 See Central America, Nicaragua, and 

 Yucatan. 



Hooker, J. D. ; dispersal of plants from 

 the north, 324, 327, 329, 330, 354; 

 southern floras, 294 ; plant -stocking of 

 the Macaronesian islands, 411, 412; 

 insular floras, 440; Kerguelen, 500; 

 St. Helena, 460; West Indian drift 

 seeds on the Azores, 37; Dracaena 

 draco, 488; Chrysobalanus icaco, 196; 

 Conocarpus erectus, 204; Portulaca 

 oleracea, 478; St. Kilda petrels and 

 drift seeds, 32 



W. J., Niger flora, 99, 131, 194, 196 



Horn, Cape; bottles and figurehead 

 drifting from off the Horn to Australia, 

 49, 63, 295, 296, 298; doubling of the 

 Horn by bottle-drift and probably 

 seed-drift, 63, 74, 78, 81, 300 



Home, J., Fijian plant, 171 



Horse-eye Bean (Mucuna urens), 34, 

 458 



Hubbard, Mrs., fruit of Sacoglottis 



amazonica on the coast of Devonshire, 



28, 134, 136 

 Humboldt, F. H. A. von; West Indian 



seed-drift in Europe, 20, 41, 43; 



ascending air-currents in the Andes, 



425 ; submarine springs off Cuba, 497 

 or Peruvian Current, influence on 



the climate of North Chile and Peru, 



271, 272, 275 

 Hunt, Carew ; plants of the Azores, 359, 



363, 385, 427, 435, 440 ; trees buried in 



volcanic ashes, 394 

 Hydrocotyle umbellata, in Jamaica, 104, 



105, 107 



vulgaris, in Azores, 360, 371, 377, 



379-381, 387, 402, 417, 429 

 Hymengea courbaril (Locust-tree); pods 



in the foreign drift of the Turks Islands, 



11, 140 



Hymenomycetes. See Mushrooms. 

 Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, in Azores, 



375, 379, 387 

 Hyoscyamus albus, in Azores, 384, 388, 



404, 421 



Hypericum, 410 ; H. foliosum, 369, 392, 

 400, 429; H. grandifolium, 400, 407; 

 H. humifusum, 492; H. perforatum, 

 492 



Hypochceris radicata, 492 



Ianthina shells on English, 29, and 

 Azorean beaches, 38 



Iceland ; stranded West Indian seeds and 

 mahogany logs, 35, 40, 42; stranded 

 bottle-drift, 52, 53, 495; shore-plants, 

 187; current-connections, 187 



Iguanas ; in the Turks Islands, 486, 487 ; 

 as seed-dispersers, 175, 178, 210, 211, 

 291 



Ilex, 406, 408, 417, 418, 429; I. azevinho, 

 407 



perado, 369, 370, 373-375, 378, 386, 



387, 392, 398, 400, 406, 407, 429; at 

 great altitude in Azores, 373 



Inagua Islands (Bahamas); plants, 168, 

 284, 286, 287, 290 ; bottle-drift, 464 



Indian Nuts, old name in Scotland for 

 West Indian drift seeds, 23, 24, 31 



Ocean ; its traverse by seed-drift as 



illustrated by bottle-drift, 47, 50, 297, 

 298, 301-305, 306-308, 311; passage 

 into South Atlantic by bottle-drift, 62, 

 63, 74, 80 



Ink-berry. See Scsevola plumieri. 



Insular factor in distribution, 334, 343, 

 358 



Ipomoea acetossefolia, 217 



carnosa, 87, 92, 217, 384, 404, 421 



kentrocaulos, 161 



pes-caprse ; general treatment, 219 ; 



seeds in beach-drift, 5, 6, 12, 17, 219, 

 242, 446 ; dispersal by currents, 87, 92, 

 219, 291 ; distribution of the species, 

 87, 217, 218, 219; on the Turks 

 Islands, 278-283, 288, and the Florida 

 sand-keys, 451, 452, 454; compared 

 with Convolvulus soldanella as regards 

 range, 220 



tuba, 87, 92, 220, 280, 281, 291, 



292, 452 



tuberosa ; general treatment, 161 ; 



popular name, 210; seeds in West 

 Indian beach-drift, 11, 12, 162, and in 

 European beach-drift, 24-27, 32-34, 

 161-163, being used as charms in the 

 Hebrides, 24 



Ireland : 



Stranded West Indian seeds, 26, 30, 

 122 



Stranded bottles; one from the 

 vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands, 

 59, 72, 76; one from the channel 

 between the south-eastern Bahamas 

 and Hispaniola, 65, 72, 466, 477; 

 one from the Caribbean Sea to the 

 south of Jamaica, 59, 76; three 

 from the seas between Cuba, 

 Florida, and the Bahamas, 52; 

 seven from the vicinity of Cape 

 Hatteras, 49, 52; one from a posi- 

 tion to the south-east of Cape Cod, 

 50 ; ten from the seas south of Nova 

 Scotia and Newfoundland, 52; two 



