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p. 77. H. C. Watson says 4 forms which pass under name of Primula elatior. 1^st P. vulgaris with umbel elevated on common stalk. 2^d another form with flower smaller & deeper coloured & grow in a many flowered umbel on a stout scape: thinks this is hybrid between primrose & cowslip & is usually (if not always) f^d in company with both parents in damp ground. 3^d there is a large-flowered cowslip, with the limit broader & less concave than usual. 4^th the true P. elatior of Bardfield.

p. 512. Mr. Purdie got on M^t of Jamaica, Vaccinium meridionale, Myotus alpina, p. 515 also Andromeda Jamaicensis, Myrica Mexicana, Viburnum villosim — says p. 518 Andromeda Jamaicensis & A. fascuculata are not f^d on higher mountains, but on m^t near Gablah's river.

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p. 57 Gardner says that in Brazil an Utricularia is found only in water growing in the water, which collects in the hollow bases of the leaves of a large Tillandsia, that inhabits abundantly on arid rocky part of the Organ M^ts. —

p. 125. Botany of the Niger Expedition of Sir W. & D^r Hooker. "Note a Madeira Plant"

In Madeira 85 absolutely peculiar, 672. plants & Ferns.

280 [some text faded] how many were non-European, i.e. whether connection was through Europe. common to Azores, of which flora estimated at 425 sp.

312. [some text faded] (or probably more) common to Canary I^d.

170 common to near Gibraltar, where 456 have been collected. Out of 400 European species f^d in Madeira, & these are Metiderranean species yet only 170 of these occur in Gibraltar.

A considerable number of the Madeiran plants belong to genera not found on the adjacent continents, but on the Canaries, Azores (from H.C. Watson list, not my genera) & C. Verd Is^ds. thus indicating a Bot. affinity between them.

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groups & confined to them. The evidence us very divided on this head. the mediterranean Flora seems added on to this Atlantic Flora. The Canaries & nadeira are centres of this. In Madeira & Canary Is^ds only mediterranean species are superadded: in Azores some more N. European species. In C. de Verde, W. Indian & W. African plants replicate those of the Mediterranean.

p. 128. Madeira owing to damp climate participate in W. Indian plants more than any plant of adjacent continent, as shown by Ferns. But there is a species of Clethra, otherwise exclusively American. The Heduchrysa are allied in a rather remarkable degree to the S. African species of the Genus, a fact which reminds us that the Myrsine africana, a Cape of Good Hope plant is native to Azores. — nor anywhere else except Abbyssina.

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p. 129. Against Forbes hypothesis it might be urged that more specific identity between the plants of th several insular groups, would there be the natural consequence than now is seen; for the affinity of vegetation between the different islands consists not in identical species, but in representatives. The same agent, in short, which effected the peopling of the several groups with the plants of continental Europe, would, also have distributed more equally to more Europaean species, over the same area. —

(Madeira existed probably at Miocene period.

One may argue as far as chance goes that the several atlantic Is^ds would derive their plants from neighbouring continent & not from each other

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the plant w^d be drifted on to the isl^d at different periods & very often the same species w^d be drifted on the different islands (as now is case with congenity of plants in these isl^ds). or allied species only on single isl^d. The old imported plant w^d be most changed, & many probably w^d become extinct before, & many remain after their continental prototypes had perished. — Hence there w^d be representative species in different isl^ds & not same. — The immigration must not be supposed to be uniform. —