On the Floras of Certain Islets outlying from 
Stewart Island (New Zealand). 
BY 
J. C. WILLIS, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., 
European Correspondent , Botanic Gardens , Rio de Janeiro. 
With one Map in the Text. 
AN interesting little paper by Poppelwell on the flora of Long Island, which 
jT\. is separated by one and a half miles of water from the south-west of 
Stewart Island, has called my at- 
tention to further papers on the 
islets which outlie from Stewart, 
especially the Breakseas and So- 
lan ders, the former close to the 
east coast of Stewart, the latter 
about thirty-five miles from the 
north-west coast and rather nearer 
to the South Island of New Zealand. 
These papers 1 are best considered 
together ; they illustrate very 
clearly the extraordinary applica- 
bility of age and area to the New 
Zealand flora, and suggest a way 
in which it may be applied even to 
the flora of Great Britain, where 
the effects of man’s occupation are 
now so predominant. 
The simplest way of dealing with the matter will probably be to first of 
all arrange these little floras in parallel columns, classified for convenience as 
in Cheeseman’s ‘ Flora ’. 
New Zealand and outlying islands. The dotted 
line is the 1,000 fathom limit. 
1 Poppelwell : Notes of a’ Botanical Excursion to Long Island. Trans, and Proc. N.Z. Inst., 
xlix, 1917, p. 167. 
Notes on the Plant Covering of the Breaksea Islands, l.c., xlviii, 1916, p. 246. 
Cockayne: On a Collection of Plants from the Solanders, l.c., xli, 1909, p. 404. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XXXIII. No. CXXXII. October, 1919.] 
