Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 Plant-Dispersal
CHAPTER XXXIV
GENERAL ARGUMENT AND CONCLUSION _Pages_ 515-523
APPENDIX _Pages_ 525-605
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE.
The Fijian species of Rhizophora _Frontispiece._
FIGURES.
TO FACE PAGE
Diagrams illustrating some of the causes of 111 seed-buoyancy
Figures illustrating the development of the seed 452-453 and the germinating process of Rhizophora and Bruguiera
Diagrams illustrating the structure of the growing 574 seeds of Barringtonia
Diagram illustrating the prevailing 585 cloud-formations of Mauna Loa
MAPS.
Oceania 12
The Ocean Currents 61
Trade routes of the Pacific Ocean (intended to 66 illustrate the distances traversed by floating seeds in that ocean)
The West Coast of South America 474
Rough plan of the Gulf of Guayaquil 484
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Page 5 and subsequent pages. _For_ Ipomea _read_ Ipomœa.
Page 68. _For_ Hippomanes _read_ Hippomane.
Page 68. _For_ Conocarpus erecta _read_ Conocarpus erectus.
Page 122. Sir W. Buller includes the fruits of the Puriri tree (Vitex littoralis, according to Kirk) amongst the food of the New Zealand fruit-pigeons.
Page 177. _For_ Entata, in the head-line, _read_ Entada.
Page 266. The fruits of Oncocarpus vitiensis have been found in the crop of a Fijian fruit-pigeon (Carpophaga latrans). _See_ Hemsley’s _Bot. Chall. Exped._, Introd., 46, and iv. 308; also Newton’s _Dictionary of Birds_, p. 724.
Page 368. Sernander (p. 185) observes that the fruits of Naias marina have little or no floating power.
Page 416. For the first eight lines read as follows:—“Of these, 22 occur in Continental regions on both sides of the Pacific; 12 are found in the Old World alone; one is peculiarly American, and two are confined to the Australian and Polynesian regions. A few of these can be regarded as exclusively American in their origin, though the bulk of them hail evidently in the first place from the Old World. But from the circumstance that all or most of the other species of the genus concerned are confined to America, it may legitimately be inferred that Waltheria americana, Ageratum conyzoides, and Physalis angulata are American-born species. Teucrium inflatum is a peculiar instance of an American weed collected in Polynesia before apparently it had been recorded from the Old World.”
Page 438. _For_ Conocarpus erecta _read_ Conocarpus erectus.
Page 417. Add after Cardiospermum halicacabum.... “Its seeds, as my experiments show, possess little or no capacity for dispersal by currents, since they sink at once or within a few days, even after drying for months.”
Page 455. Omit the reference to figure 6 in the centre of the page.
Page 498. _For_ Hippomanes _read_ Hippomane.
Page 508. Amongst my Solomon Island collections identified at Kew were the fruits of a species of Litsea from the crop of a fruit-pigeon (Hemsley’s _Bot. Chall. Exped._, IV. 295.)
Page 533. _For_ Commelyne _read_ Commelina.
Page 539. At foot of page, _for_ Thames sea-drift, _read_ Thames seed-drift.
Page 581. _For_ Crambe maritimum _read_ Crambe maritima.
Page 618. Under Mascarene Islands add Myoporum to the plants linking them to the Pacific Islands.
OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST IN THE PACIFIC