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GENERAL INDEX 



Littoral floras, West Indian and West 

 African compared, 83-95, 86; tropics 

 of the Old and New World compared 

 309, 453, 454 



Littoral plants : 



(a) Genera holding both littoral and 

 inland species; Anona, 175; Bar- 

 ringtonia, 175; Calophyllum, 156, 

 175; Canavalia, 133; Chryso- 

 balanus, 196; Clerodendron, 175; 

 Coccoloba, 197; Colubrina, 200; 

 Cordia, 175; Erythrina, 208; 

 Guettarda, 175; Guilandina, 133, 

 456; Hibiscus, 214; Luff a, 223; 

 Morinda, 175, 226; Portulaca, 

 478; Scgevola, 175, 230; Sophora, 

 133, 237-239; Terminalia, 116, 

 175, 231; Tournefortia, 248. For 

 a discussion of the subject, see 

 chapters xiv, xv, xvi, of my book 

 on Plant-Dispersal, a list of genera 

 being given on p. 134. 



(b) The relation between a littoral 



station, buoyancy of seeds and 

 fruits, and dispersal by currents, 

 139, 140, 169, 216, 223, 229, 238, 

 239, 456, 457 



(c) The relation between a littoral 



station and xerophily, 169, 175, 

 216, 229, 239, 288, 293. See 

 pp. 32, 39, 201, 515, of Plant- 

 Dispersal. 



(d) The extension of inland plants to 

 the coast, 229, 288, 293, 448 (see 

 p. 131 of Plant-Dispersal); and 

 the extension of littoral plants 

 inland, 219, 227, 237-239, 288, 

 293. See under Littoral plants 

 in index of Plant -Dispersal for 

 further data. 



(e) Littoral plants as parents of inland 



species, 226, 456, 478. See Plant- 

 Dispersal, pp. 133-170. 

 (/) Littoral plants of the same genus 

 dividing the tropical world between 

 them, 227, 228; Carapa, 141, 228; 

 Rhizophora, 141, 228; Scsevola, 

 227, 247 ; Tournefortia, 228, 247 < 



(g) Littoral plants where both frugi- 



vorous birds and marine currents 

 disperse the species; Cassytha, 

 192; Scsevola, 230, 232; Ximenia, 

 252 



(h) Littoral plants of the Azores, 384, 



404 ; Jamaica, 106, 244 ; Teneriffe, 

 448; Turks Islands, 290, 291; 

 West Indies, 86, 87 

 Littorella lacustris in the Azores, 371, 



378, 380, 381, 387, 403, 417, 420, 429, 



432 



Lloyd-Jones, A., Entada scandens seed 



in Swansea Bay, 30 

 Locust-tree. See Hymensea courbaril. 



Logs, drifting; transporting seeds, 248. 



291, 418, 421 

 Lomba, an eminence on the upper slope 



of Pico, 360 

 Loranths. See Arceuthobium and Phora- 



dendron. 



Lord Howe Island, possessing New 



Zealand Carices, 348 

 Loro (Louro), Laurus canariensis, 432 

 Losningsteen, Norse name of Entada 



scandens, 23 

 Lottin, seed of Entada scandens found 



near the North Cape, 36 

 Lotus, 390; L. angustissimus, 492 

 Louisiana; stranded bottle-drift, 58; 



shore plants, 191, 218 

 Lowe, R. T. ; Madeiran flora, 185, 406, 



407, 410, 411, 435-437, 440; the 



Salvages, 449 

 Lowenorn, Von; drift-wood in high 



northern latitudes, 35, 40, 45 

 Lucuma, 29; L. mammosa, 29 

 Luffa, 223 



Lumnitzera, 309, 454 



Luzula, means of dispersal, 419, 427 



purpureo-splendens, 371, 377, 387, 



402 



Lycoperdon (Puff-ball), falling rate of 



spores, 424 

 Lycopodium ; falling rate of spores, 424 ; 



L. selago, 371, 374, 377, 379; L. com- 



planatum, 375, 380; L. plumosum, 



492 



Lyngbye, H. C, West Indian seeds and 

 drift-wood in the Faroe Islands, 35, 40, 

 43, 122 



Lysimachia nemorum, var. azorica, 371, 

 374, 377, 379, 387, 402, 419, 422, 432 



Macaronesian Islands (Azores, Canaries, 

 Madeira); floras compared, 365, 385, 

 396, 398-416; plants of the woods, 

 406, 407, 415; zones of vegetation, 

 407-411, 415, 416; summit vegetation, 

 411, 416; history of their plant-stock- 

 ing, 411-414, 416; American elements, 

 412; comparison of climate and con- 

 ditions, 365, 409 ; the dispersing agency 

 and subsequent differentiation of the 

 pigeons, 418; the Campanulas, 428; 

 Juniperus oxycedrus, 431, 432 



Machado, C, Portuguese botanist, 359, 

 364, 385 



McKeehan, L. A., falling rates of spores, 

 423 



Madagascar; bottle and seed -drift and 

 their tracks, 301, 304, 305; Sphag- 

 num and Carex, 334, 343-346 



Madeira : 



Bottle-drift; recovered on the island, 

 52, 53, 54, 484, 485; dropped into 

 the sea in the vicinity, 56, 57, 67, 

 464, 465 



