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none of Ceylon species common to Europe; though many of the Genera in common. (Now considering Himalaya & Java & Borneo & Organ Mountains whole world must have been colder & had a sub-Himalayan vegetation, at a period remoter than Glacial, for vegetation then common at vase of mountains in India representative.)

p. 39. Numerous cases of imported plants which have overrun many parts of Ceylon: some of which known to have escaped lately from Bot. Garden, as Passiflora foetida in 1824 "Now so common a weed everywhere" Ageratum conyzoides is now one of the great a pest to the Coffee Planter.

[George Gardner. 1849. Contributions to a history of the relation between climate and vegetation in various parts of the globe: The vegetation of Ceylon. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. 4: 31-40.]

Vol. IV. The Vegetation of the Indian Archipelago by Dr. C. G. Reinwardt.

p. 233 In Java at above 7000 ft we meet with Ericaceæ, as Andromeda, Vaccinium, Clethra. Rhododendrons, Myrica.

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"Other tribes never found in the lower parts of India," surprise us on these elevations & bring to memory our native land. Valerians, Ranunculuses, Daisies, Hypericums, Honeysuckles Gnaphaliums, Swertias, Gentian. In humid places Violets, Elders, Mints, Potentillas, Centaureas, Spiraeas, Sorrels, Isopyrums & even Carexes. All these forms, however, are peculiar to their own soil & cannot be identified with our species. This Java case appears to me truly wonderful considering Borneo. was not height then greater - Enquire.

[G. C. Reinwardt. 1849. The vegetation of the Indian Archipelago. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. 4: 228-40.]

Vol. V. The Boston Nectarine was raised at Boston from stone of Peach.

[Robert Thompson. 1850. Account of an experiment in packing ripe fruit of the Boston nectarine, etc. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. 5: 27-28.]