JOHNSTON: FLORA OF MARGARITA ISLAND. 303 
is also seen in studying the distribution of the individual plants that 
Margarita contains twice as many plants which are characteristic of 
South America as are characteristic of the West Indies. And finally, 
it is still as clearly evident from comparing it with other islands about 
the Caribbean Sea that while Margarita has some plants common to 
all of the islands, yet as a whole it has a flora quite distinct from the 
northern islands and at the same time closely approaching that of the 
Venezuelan islands and the north coast of the mainland. 
