Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 Plant-Dispersal

CHAPTER VIII

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THE LITTORAL PLANTS AND THE CURRENTS OF THE PACIFIC

The working value of the currents as plant-dispersers.—The relation between the currents and the distribution of shore-plants.—The clue afforded by the American plants.—Two regions of tropical shore-plants, the American and the Asiatic.—America, the home of the cosmopolitan tropical shore-plants that are dispersed by the currents.—Hawaii and the currents.—Summary

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