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GENERAL INDEX 



For its representation in European 

 beach-drift, see pages 26, 133-137. 

 Safflower, 492 



Safford, W. E., on the genus Anona, 174- 

 181 



Sagina procumbens, the possibility of its 



dispersal by winds, 422, 424, 439 

 Sagittaria; S. lancifolia of Jamaica, 16, 



104-107, and of South Florida, 179 

 Sagot, M. P., on Mucuna pruriens, 459 

 St. Croix, 6 ; shore plants, 244, 456, 457 

 St. Dabeoc's Heath. See Menziesia 

 polifolia. 



St. Helena ; position with reference to the 

 equatorial currents and the indications 

 of bottle-drift, 60, 443, 474, 475, 531; 

 the flora and the currents, 459, 460 ; en- 

 demic species of Carex and Sphagnum, 

 343 



St. Kilda, 31, 32 



St. Michael's, Azores (San Miguel), 382, 



387, 393, 396, 397 

 St. Paul, Southern Ocean, Uncinia, 498, 



501 



St. Paul's Rocks, Equatorial Atlantic, 

 bottle-drift from their vicinity, 50, 59, 

 61, 67, 70, 443, 444, 475 



Salcombe, South Devon, stranded West 

 Indian seeds with other seed-drift and 

 pelagic organisms, 28, 29, 30 



Salicornia ; in Jamaica and Ecuador, 101, 

 106, 108, 109; S. ambigua in Turks 

 Islands, 283, 290-292, and in the 

 Florida sand-keys, 451-453; distribu- 

 tion and mode of dispersal of the genus, 

 452, 453, 478 



Salinity of estuaries. See Estuaries. 



Salix, 179 



Salsola kali; in the Azores, 219, 384, 388, 

 404, 421 ; fitness for dispersal by cur- 

 rents and birds, 421, 447 



Salt Key Bank, L. Agassiz on the, 261 



Lakes district. See under Jamaica. 



Salt-rakers, in the Turks Islands, 277, 487 



Salvages, Mesembryanthemum, 449 



Samolus valerandi, Azores, 421 



Sampaiao, J. A. N., Portuguese botanist 

 in the Azores, 359, 364, 385 



Sand-dunes, 503. See under Medanos. 



San Domingo. See Hispaniola. 



Sand-keys ; Florida, vegetation and plant 

 stocking, 450-453, comparison of vege- 

 tation of sand -islets in West Indies and 

 tropical Pacific, 453 



Sanguinho, Azorean name of Rhamnus 

 latifolius, 436 



Sanicula azorica, 375, 418 



San Jorge (Azores), 364, 397, 427^29, 

 432-438 ; Juniper trees, 396 



Miguel (Azores); flora, 382, 387; 



original forests and their destruction, 

 393, 396, 397; buried Juniper trees, 

 393-395 



Santa Barbara, Terceira; vegetation, 

 383, 387 



Maria, West Indian name of Calo- 



phyllum calaba, q.v. 



Rosa River, Ecuador, 100 



Sapindus saponaria, 11, 25, 26, 37, 87, 



88, 91, 95, 156, 219 

 Sapium, 114 



Sapotacea ; seeds stranded on the Devon- 

 shire coast, 29; represented in the 

 floras of Madeira, Cape Verde Islands, 

 and Hawaii, 410, 488, 489 



Sargasso Sea, 38, 64, 461, 485 



Weed; in the Gulf of Mexico 



and the Florida Stream, 485; in the 

 beach-drift of the West Indies, 6, of the 

 Turks Islands, 446, of the Azores, 38, 

 485, of Cornwall and Shetlands, 486 



Sarraceniacese, 314, 315 



Sassafras, 318 



Saussure, Necker de, 44; stranded West 

 Indian seeds and turtles in the Hebrides, 

 32, 40, 41 



Savanna-la-mar, Jamaica, vegetation, 

 106 



Scsevola, 171, 175, 192, 193, 207, 227, 

 447; Sc. kcenigii, 227, 447, 454; Sc. 

 lobelia, 447, 448; Sc. plumieri, 5, 17, 

 86, 92, 227-236, 242, 277-283, 288, 

 291, 446, 447, 451-454 



Scandinavia; West Indian seed-drift, 

 21, 23, 25, 27, 35, 78, 81, 122, 146, 

 153, 162, 173, 208; stranded bottle- 

 drift, 52, 53, 65, 495 



Scharff, R. F., 331, 460, 497 ; similarity 

 in the structure of the Bermudas and 

 the Bahamas, 273; origin of the Ber- 

 mudian flora and fauna, 466; on the 

 North polar area as a dispersion-centre, 

 325 



Schimper, A. F. W., 294; Indo-Malayan 

 strand plants, 141, 157, 167, 192, 229, 

 458 ; littoral plants of tropical America, 

 143, 156, 203, 204, 447; buoyancy of 

 seeds and fruits and dispersal by cur- 

 rents, 93, 116, 156, 203, 207, 225, 231, 

 234, 242, 248; foliage of Juniperus 

 nana, 431, 432 



Schjoth, A., West Indian seed-drift on 

 European beaches, 20, 44 



Schmidt, J. A., on plants of the Cape 

 Verde Islands, 155, 167, 170, 488 



Schott, G., on bottle-drifts and their 

 indications in the Atlantic, Indian, 

 and Pacific Oceans; Atlantic, 46-82; 

 Southern, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, 

 294-312; data relating to particular 

 regions and localities and utilised in 

 the Notes of the Appendix as given 

 in the list on page 441, viz. on the 

 Equatorial Atlantic Currents, Azores, 

 Bermudas, Canaries, Madeira, Turks 

 Group, etc.; derelicts, 472, 473 



