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Madeira (continued) — 



Flora compared with those of the 

 Azores and the Canaries (Teneriffe), 

 365, 385, 398-416, 406-411. See 

 under Macaronesian Islands for the 

 details of the comparison. 

 West Indian seed -drift, 38 

 Magdalena River, 17 

 Mahogany logs, transported by currents 

 to Greenland, Iceland, and North- 

 West Europe, 35, 40, 42, 48, 78 



canoe made of ; stranded on the 



Faroe Islands, 40 

 Maiden, J. H., on the overlapping of the 

 ranges of Ipomoea pes-caprse and Con- 

 volvulus soldanella in eastern Australia, 

 220 



Maize, half-eaten cobs in beach-drift of 



South Devon, 29 

 Malagasy province, Sphagnum and Carex, 



334, 343-346 

 Maldives, compared with the Bahamas, 



255, 256, 274 

 Malva; M. mauritiana, 492; M. nicseen- 



sis, 492 

 Mamillaria, 224, 287 



Mammea, 84, 144, 326; M. americana, 



4, 11-13, 87, 91, 144 

 Manchineel. See Hippomane mancinella. 

 Mangifera indica (Mango); "stones" in 



beach-drift, 11, 30, 164 

 Mangle grande and Mangle chico (Rhizo- 



phora mangle), 99 

 Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), in 



European beach-drift, 28, 36 

 Mangroves : 



Dispersal by currents, 86, 90, 94, 96, 

 451, 452 



Mangrove-formation; West Indies, 4, 

 18 ; Turks Islands, 10, 289 ; Jamaica, 

 15, 106, 108-110; Florida sand-keys, 

 450 ; West Indian and West African 

 compared, 86, 89, 90; Asiatic and 

 and American compared, 309, 454 



Mangrove fruits and seedlings in beach- 

 drift, 4, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 446, 451, 

 452 



Stocking of islets with mangroves, 451 

 Vivipary of mangroves, 4, 502 

 (Further details will be found under 



Avicennia, Rhizophora, and Lagun- 



cularia) 



Manicaria saccifera, 3-8, 11-14, 17, 25, 



26, 31, 75, 86, 90, 127 

 Mann, H., Hawaiian flora, 170 

 Marantacese, 315 

 Marianne Islands, 201 

 Marias Islands, 201 



Martin, M., on the West Indian seed-drift 

 of the Hebrides and Mull, 22-25, 31, 

 41, 43 



Martins, Ch. ; effects of sea-water immer- 

 sion on seeds, 188, 447 ; a pod of Cassia 



fistula washed up in the south of 



France, 154 

 Martius, on Manicaria saccifera, 128 

 Martyr, Cassia fistula in the West Indies, 



155 



Mary's Bean or Virgin Mary's Nut, names 



of stranded West Indian seeds in the 



Hebrides, 24 

 Mascarene Islands, Sphagnum and Carex, 



334, 343-346 

 Masson, F., Azorean plants, 361, 385, 440, 



493 



Masters, on buried Juniper trunks from 



the Azores, 395 

 Matricaria maritima, 187 

 Mauritius, Carex and Sphagnum, 344-346 

 Mayor, F. S., earliest cultivated plants 



in the Azores, 397, 440 

 Medanos, moving sand-dunes in Peru, 



270, 271, 493-495, 503, 504 

 Medicago, 390 



Mediterranean, bottle-drift from the 



Atlantic, 53, 56 

 Melocactus communis (Turk's-head Cac- 

 tus), 202, 224, 280, 283, 287, 292 

 Mentha; M. pulegium, 492; M. rotundi- 



folia, 492 

 Menzies, Conocarpus erectus, 201 

 Menziesia, distribution, 419 

 polifolia (St. Dabeoc's Heath), 370- 



373, 377, 386, 387, 402, 411, 433; 



means of dispersal, 417, 419, 422 

 Mertensia maritima, 187 

 Mesembryanthemum ; a doubtful species 



in the Azores, 384, 404 ; M. crystallinum 



and M. nodiflorum in the Canaries and 



Salvages, 448, 449 

 Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), 168 

 Mexico, Gulf of; bottle-drift and its 



indications, 57, 58, 61, 67, 71-73, 79, 



444, 445 



Miers, J., on Crescentia cucurbitina, 149; 

 on Grias cauliflora, 211 



Milium lendigerum, 491 



Millspaugh, C. F. ; author's indebtedness, 

 9; Cakile, 184-189 ; Conocarpus erectus, 

 201, 203; Ipomoea carnosa, 217-219; 

 Alacran Shoals, 187, 188, 201, 231, 

 240, 250; Cayman Islands, 138, 192, 

 197, 201, 206, 221, 225, 240, 250, 251, 

 456; Florida sand-keys, 115, 156, 182, 

 183, 203, 204, 231, 232, 450-453; 

 Turks Islands, 278-287, 291; Porto 

 Rico, 99, 168, 192 ; Jamaica and Cuba, 

 168, 251 ; Bahamas, 114, 210, 220, 225; 

 Yucatan, 157, 227 



Milner, Sir W., West Indian drift seeds 

 in the crops of petrels at St. Kilda, 

 31, 32 



Mimosa scandens, 32, 35 



Missel-thrush, as a disperses of Juniper 



seeds, 437 

 Mississippi delta, vegetation, 218, 252 



