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GENERAL INDEX 



Sophora, 133, 239 ; S. ckrysophylla, 239 ; 



S. tetraptera, 239, 294, 307, 308, 311; 



S. tomentosa, 6, 12, 87, 92, 198, 207, 



237, 244, 286, 288, 291 

 Spain; stranded bottle-drift, 53, 68; 



bottles thrown overboard off the coasts, 



57, 66 



Spartium junceum, 492 

 Spartocytisus nubigenus (Retama), 409, 

 411 



Spergularia marina, 384, 388, 404, 418, 

 421 



Sphagnum. See under Carex compared 

 with Sphagnum, as indexed under 

 Carex, 332-358. The principal species 

 there referred to are : cymbifolium, 

 349; fimbriatum, 337-339, 348, 349; 

 junghuhnianum, 350; medium, 337- 

 339, 348, 349; mexicanum, 337, 338; 

 papillosum, 349; pappeanum, 344, 

 346; plumulosum, 337, 338; pulchri- 

 coma, 337, 341, 344, 346; rufescens, 

 341; torreyanum, 337, 338; turgi- 

 dulum, 341. 

 Spirula, shells in beach-drift, 6, 38 

 Spondias lutea (Hog-Plum), 4, 11-14, 



17, 87, 91, 111, 193 

 Spores, falling rates of, 355, 422-425, 439 

 Springs; probable sea-water springs in 

 the Black River Morass, 101, 102; 

 fresh-water springs in the same morass, 

 104; submarine springs, 497; springs 

 on Pico, 496, 497 

 Spruce, R. ; Carapa guianensis, 141, 143 ; 

 Grias, 212; Manicaria saccifera, 128; 

 Omphalea diandra, 160; Phytelephas, 

 17 



Spunk-box, origin of the Hebridean name 



for Entada scandens, 25 

 Stachys arvensis, 391 

 Stapf, Dr., Sacoglottis amazonica, 134, 



135 



Statice; numerous Canarian species, 



408, 448; S. bahamensis, 285, 286; 



S. limonium, 384 

 Sterility and cold currents. See Climate. 

 Sterpin, J., translator of the book of 



Debes on the Faroe Islands, 23 

 Stewart Island, Uncinia, 498 

 Storks, migrating from Europe to South 



Africa, 354 

 Strom, Norwegian naturalist of the 



eighteenth century, on the tropical 



seeds in Scandinavian beach-drift, 22, 



35-37, 41, 44, 146, 153 

 Suffida, 290 



Subsecunda, Sphagnum subsection, simi- 

 lar behaviour in Africa and Australia, 

 344, 353, 357 



Sugar-cane, early cultivation in the Azores, 

 397 



Suriana maritima; general treatment, 

 239; in the Turks Islands, 278-283, 



288, 289, 291; in the Florida sand- 

 keys, 451, 452 ; influence of wind-pres- 

 sure on its growth, 446, 447; repre- 

 sented in beach seed-drift, 6, 241, 242 ; 

 distribution, 85, 87, 92 



Swallows, migration from Great Britain 

 to South Africa, 354 



Sweden ; stranding of West Indian seeds, 

 27, 36, and bottle-drift, 52 



Swietenia mahogani, 242; its associates 

 in the open forests of Jamaica and 

 Cuba, 111, 112. See under Mahogany. 



Symphonia, 83, 84; S. globulifera (Hog- 

 gum); general treatment, 243; de- 

 tails, 3, 15, 16, 83, 86, 88, 90-92, 95, 

 159, 205 



Syngonium, 16 



Tabernaemontanus, 44, 45 

 Tamarind, 155 



Tamujo (Tamucho), name in Azores of 



Myrsine africana, 434 

 Tansley, A. G., Sphagnum tussocks, 377 

 Taxus baccata (Teixo), in the Azores, 



369, 370, 380, 386, 387, 392, 393, 401, 



405, 406, 417, 418, 436 

 Taylor, N., plants of Grand Turk, 286, 



287 



Teneriffe; flora and zones of vegetation 

 compared with those of Pico (Azores) 

 and Madeira, 406-411, 415; summit 

 plants, 411 ; shore plants, 448 ; Sphag- 

 num, 344, 346 ; ascending air-currents, 

 425; climate compared with that of 

 Pico and Madeira, 409; angle of the 

 mountain's slope, 366; Dragon-tree, 

 487; beach-drift, 38 ; bottle-drift from 

 Greenland waters, 484, 496 



Terceira; Santa Barbara ascent, 383, 

 387; original forests, 393; buried 

 Junipers, 395 



Terminalia, 83, 84, 116, 175, 204, 231; 

 T. katappa, 6, 11, 116 



Tetragonia expansa, in Azores, 385 



Texas, the chaparral scrub, 167-169, 

 229; bottle-drift stranded, 58. See 

 under Mexico, Gulf of, for other 

 data. 



Thespesia, 83, 326; T. populnea, general 

 treatment, 244 ; compared with Acacia 

 farnesiana and Hibiscus tiliaceus, 172; 

 seeds and capsules in beach-drift, 5, 

 6, 12; references to station, etc., 87, 

 92, 116, 168, 194, 197, 200, 287, 288, 

 291 ; T. danis, 246 



Thomson, A. L., migration of storks, 354 



Thrinax, 109, 287 



Thuret, G., floating capacities of seeds, 

 447 



Thymus serpyllum, var. angustifolius of 

 the Azores, 370-373, 376, 377, 383, 

 386, 387, 402, 407, 411; concerning 

 its dispersal, 417, 419, 422 



