fifty of the flowering plants of Tierra del Fuego, forming no inconsiderable part of its scanty flora, are common to Europe,
enormously remote as these two points are; and there are many closely allied species. On the lofty mountains of equatorial America a host of peculiar species belonging to European genera occur. On the
Organ Organ 1866 1869 1872 | highest 1859 1860 1861 |
mountains of Brazil, some few European
temperate, some antarctic, and some Andean genera temperate, some antarctic, and some Andean genera 1866 |
genera 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872 |
were found by Gardner, which do not exist in the
low low 1866 1869 1872 | wide 1859 1860 1861 |
intervening hot
countries; and I have been informed that Agassiz has lately discovered plain marks of glacial action on these same mountains. countries; and I have been informed that Agassiz has lately discovered plain marks of glacial action on these same mountains. 1866 |
countries. 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872 |
On On 1866 1869 1872 | So on 1859 1860 1861 |
the Silla of Caraccas
the illustrious Humboldt long ago found species belong- ing
to genera characteristic of the
Cordillera.
Cordillera.
1866 | Cordillera. 1859 1860 1861 |
Cordillera.
1869 1872 |
In Africa, several forms characteristic of Europe and some few representatives of the flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur on the mountains of Abyssinia. ↑1 blocks not present in 1866 1869 1872; present in 1859 1860 1861 | On the mountains of Abyssinia, several European forms
and some few representatives of the peculiar
flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur.
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At the Cape of Good Hope
a a 1859 1860 1866 1869 1872 | itself a 1861 |
very few European species, believed not to have been introduced by man, and on the
mountains mountains 1866 1869 1872 | mountains, 1859 1860 1861 |
some few
representative European forms are found, which have not been discovered in the intertropical parts of Africa. Dr. Hooker has also lately shown that several of the plants living on the upper parts of the lofty island of Fernando Po and on the neighbouring Cameroon mountains, in the Gulf of Guinea, are closely related to those on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. It now also appears, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, that some of these same temperate plants have been discovered by the Rev. R.T.
Lowe on the mountains of the Cape de Verde islands. This extension of the same temperate forms, almost under the equator, across the whole continent of Africa and to the mountains of the Cape de Verde archipelago, is one of the most astonishing facts ever recorded in the distribution of
plants.
On the Himalaya, and on the isolated mountain-ranges of the peninsula of India, on the heights of Ceylon, and on the volcanic cones of Java, many plants occur, either identically the same or representing each other, and at the same time representing plants of Europe, not found in the intervening hot lowlands. A list of the genera
of plants collected of plants collected 1866 1869 1872 |
collected 1859 1860 1861 |
on the loftier peaks of Java
raises a picture of a collection made on a hill
in Europe! Still more striking is the fact that
peculiar southern peculiar southern 1866 1869 | southern 1859 1860 1861 | peculiar 1872 |
Australian forms are
....... 1866 1869 1872 | clearly 1859 1860 1861 |
represented by plants
growing on the summits of the mountains of Borneo. Some of these Australian forms, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, extend along the heights of the peninsula of Malacca, and are thinly
scattered scattered 1866 1869 1872 | scattered, 1859 1860 1861 |
on the one hand over
India, India, 1866 1869 1872 | India 1859 1860 1861 |
and on the other
hand as hand as 1866 1869 1872 | as 1859 1860 1861 |
far north as Japan. |