Origin of Species Variorum

↑ 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.

→ of plants collected 1866 1869 1872

collected 1859 1860 1861

→ certain 1869 1872

throughout the world, the 1859 1860 1861

throughout the world, 1866

→ OMIT 1869 1872

and on the temperate lowlands 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ tropics in all parts of the world, and on the temperate plains of the north and south, are either 1869 1872

northern and southern hemispheres, are sometimes identically 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ species or varieties of the same species. 1872

but they are much oftener specifically distinct, though related to each other in a most remarkable manner. 1859 1860 1861

but much oftener they are specifically distinct, though plainly related to each other in a remarkable manner. 1866

identical species or varieties of the same species. 1869

Caraccas

Caraccas,

the illustrious Humboldt long ago found species

belong- ing

belonging

to genera characteristic of the

Cordillera.

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. ↑ At the Cape of Good Hope

itself a

very few European species, believed not to have been introduced by man, and on the

mountains,

mountains

some few

several

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.

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 on the loftier peaks of

Java

Java,

raises a picture of a collection made on a

hill

hillock

in Europe! Still more striking is the fact that

southern

peculiar southern

peculiar

Australian forms are

clearly

....

represented by

plants

certain 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

on the one hand over

India

India,

and on the other

hand as

far north as Japan.

On the southern mountains of Australia, Dr. F.

Müller

has discovered several European species; other species, not introduced by man, occur on the lowlands; and a long list can be given, as I am informed by Dr. Hooker, of European

general,

genera,

found in Australia, but not in the intermediate torrid regions. In the admirable 'Introduction to the Flora of New Zealand,' by Dr. Hooker, analogous and striking facts are given in regard to the plants of that large island. Hence we see

that,

that

→certain plants growing on the more lofty

mountains,

mountains

→OMIT of the →tropics in all parts of the world, and on the temperate plains of the north and south, are either the

same;

same

→species or varieties of the same species. It should, however, be observed