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On the Discovery of Phylica arborea, Thouars, a tree of Tristan d'Acunha, in Amsterdam Island in the S. Indian Ocean; with an Enumeration of the Phanerogams and Vascular Cryptogams of that Island and of St. Paul
doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1875.tb00344.xpmid: N/A
Footnotes * " As also by myself in the ‘Mora Antarctica.’ † " See ‘Mora Antarctica,’ vol. ii. p. 221. The Novara expedition made a landing, but were unable to penetrate into the interior of the island. ‡ " Relation, vol. i. p. 111. * " I extract the following remark from an unpublished Admiralty Report by Lieut. Hosken, R.N., H.M.S. ‘Pearl.’ “On the N.E. side, near the coast, on lower ranges small trees struggled for existence, looking stunted in their growth; the grass was longer and thicker than it was to the southward, making it difficult to walk through it.” * " Reise d. Novara, i. pp. 267, 268; Reichardt, l. c. pp. 10 & 31. * " The occurrence of L. cernuum in the neighbourhood of hot springs both in the Azores and at St. Paul is mentioned by Berkeley (Introd. to Crypt. Bot. p. 561); but the temperatures quoted belong to the latter and not to the former. " Mr. Kirk has lately informed me that the Gleichenia grows at Botomahana “to the height of 6 feet or more, amongst leptospermum &c, on steaming soil that scarcely bears your weight, and which, on the slightest rupture of the surface, emits dense jets of heated steam.” " Another instance of the same kind is afforded by the variety of Nympfoea lotus (N. thermalis, DC. Syst. ii. 54), which grows in the hot springs of Hungary, the temperature of which is 95° F. † " In the ‘Flora Brasiliensis,’ Mr. Baker unites B. hastatum with B. australe. Article PDF first page preview Close This content is only available as a PDF.