GENERAL INDEX 



527 



Schulz, on Cakile, 185 



" Schwan," s.s., bottle-drift, 475 



Scilly Islands; sea-fans, 22; capture of 



a Leathery Turtle, 41. 

 Scirpus, 417; S. constrictus, 455; S. 



fluitans and S. multicaulis, 371, 378, 



380, 381, 387, 403, 420; S. palustris, 



381, 403, 420; S. plantagineus, 105, 

 455; S. savii, 378, 403 



Scitaminese, 315 

 Scleria, 455 



Scotland and the Hebrides; stranded 



West Indian seeds, 22-27, 31, 122; 



bottle-drift stranded, 49, 52, 53, 65, 



68. See also Hebrides. 

 Sea-apple (Manicaria saccifera), 127 

 Sea-bean (Entada scandens), 21, 22 

 Sea-birds, as seed-dispersers. See Birds, 



Gulls, Petrels, Frigate-birds, Boobies. 

 Sea-coconut (Manicaria saccifera), 127 

 Sea Finns, West Indian drift seeds, 25 

 Sea -nut, West Indian drift seeds, 22 

 Sea-side grape, Coccoloba uvifera, q. v. 

 Securinega buxifolia, 434 

 Seeds; falling rates, 354, 355, 422-425, 



439; mucosity, 419, 421, 427; hypo- 



cotylar, 213, 214, 243 

 Seemann, B., Dioclea panamensis, 132; 



Acacia farnesiana, 171; Thespesia 



populnea, 246; Ximenia americana, 



253 



Selaginellae, 375 



Selala, the seedless Rhizophora of Fiji, 

 99, 110 



Sempervivum, in the Canaries, 408, and 



Madeira, 410 

 Senecio, capacity for dispersal by winds, 



425, 439 

 Sequoia, 318, 327 

 Serapias, 377 



Sernander, R., West Indian seeds and 

 fruits on the Scandinavian coast, 21, 

 36, 37, 42, 44, 122, 146, 153, 173 

 dispersal of Juniperus communis, 430 ; 



Sesuvium, 101, 279, 280, 290; S. portula- 

 castrum, 278-281, 288, 291, 451-454, 

 477 



Sete Cidades, Azores, 394, 396 

 Seubert, M. ; on the flora of the Azores, 

 359, 362, 363, 368-370, 385, 389, 392, 

 428-438, 440 ; zones of vegetation on 

 Pico, 368; reliability of the altitudes, 

 362, 363, 425 

 Seven-year apple. See Genipa clusii- 

 folia, 210 



Seven-year vine, Ipomcea tuberosa, 210 

 Seward, A. C, on the Glossopteris flora, 

 328, 331 



Shaler, Prof., submarine springs off 



Florida coast, 497 

 Sherardia arvensis, 491 

 Shetland Islands; West Indian seeds 



stranded, 22, 24, 27, 34, 122; also 



turtles and drift-wood, 40-42 ; stranded 

 bottle-drift, 52, 53, 65 



Shreve, Forrest, the forests of eastern 

 Jamaica, 156, 243 



Sibbald, Sir R., West Indian seeds on the 

 beaches of Scotland and of the islands, 

 23, 31, 33, 44 



Sibthorpia, 420 ; S. europea in the Azores, 

 371, 375, 383, 387, 402, 420 , 436; on 

 its fitness for dispersal, 419, 422 



Sicyos angulatus, 294 



Sideroxylon, in Hawaii, 489 ; S. mermu- 

 lana, in Madeira, 410 



Sierra Leone; bottle-drift from the 

 vicinity of St. Paul's Rocks, 50, 59, 

 475, and from off the north coast of 

 Brazil, 59, 476 



Silene maritima ; in Iceland, 187 ; in the 

 Azores, 384, 388, 404, 421; capacity 

 for dispersal by currents and sea-birds, 

 418, 421 



Silver Bank, 255, 258, 264 



" Sir Edward Hawke," King's Schooner, 

 265, 489 



Skye, Isle of ; bottle-drift, 68 



Sloane, Sir H. ; West Indian seeds on the 

 Irish and Scottish coasts and on the 

 Hebrides and the Orkneys, 21-24, 30- 

 34, 41, 44, 122, 128, 136, 137. Re- 

 marks on some Jamaican plants, 

 Spondias lutea, 111, 113; Hippomane 

 mancinella, 115; Mammea americana, 

 144; Crescentia cujete, 147; Cassia 

 fistula, 152, 155; Sapindus saponaria, 

 157; Grias cauliflora, 211; Guilan- 

 dina, 457. References to the drift 

 fruits of Manicaria saccifera, 128, etc., 

 Sacoglottis amazonica, 136, 137, and 

 Ipomoea tuberosa, 161-163, the prickles 

 of Zanthoxylum, 164, and the sea-fans 

 of the Scilly Islands, 22 



Smilax; in the Azores, 369, 376, 380, 

 392, 401; in the Canaries, 401, 406, 

 408 ; modes of dispersal, 417, 418 



Smith, Lea, stranded alligator in the 

 Turks Islands, 487 



Snakes, transported by currents to islands, 

 Keeling Atoll, St. Vincent, Turks 

 Islands, 303, 486, 487 



Snuff-boxes, seeds of Entada scandens 

 from European beaches thus used, 25, 

 33 



Soap-berry. See Sapindus saponaria. 

 Solan Goose, Molucca beans found in its 



nest, 31 

 Solanum pseudo-capsicum, 491 

 Solidago sempervirens, 385, 404, 421 

 Solomon Islands, Dioclea reflexa, 132 

 Solvent-stone, signification of old Norse 



name for the stranded seeds of Entada 



scandens, 23 

 Sonchus oleraceus, capacity for dispersal 



by winds, 424, 425, 439 



