This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... of species new to science, and a good proportion of the other invertebrates. Of plants there are about 200 species all told, of which about 30 are peculiar to the island. As a very exhaustive account of the natural history will be published shortly by the British Museum, this part of my account must needs bo rather ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... of species new to science, and a good proportion of the other invertebrates. Of plants there are about 200 species all told, of which about 30 are peculiar to the island. As a very exhaustive account of the natural history will be published shortly by the British Museum, this part of my account must needs bo rather short. The problem of the distributiou and range of the known species will be very intricate, but South America and the West Indies will claim the majority. The great interest of the vegetation of Fernando centres in the conflict between the uninvited satellites of man and the aboriginal flora. A ruthless, truceless war is being waged, and the issue is already decided. The invaders have mastered the plain country, and are at present engaged in storming the heights and reducing the sea-shore. The woods have, for the most part, already fallen, partly in process of clearing for cultivation, partly for firewood, and partly by order of the authorities, lest the convicts should make rafts and escape. The only trees of any size left are some aged burras, saved by their poisonous juice, and here and there a native fig. On the rocks the endemics still hold their ground, and on the wind-swept cliffs of the coast, but it is after all a precarious tenure of existence, and we felt, when we found on the East Hills two scrambling bushes of a plant so strange that its very order seems uncertain, that perhaps they were the sole survivors of their race. But it is in the Sapate that the warriors of the invasion do battle. The firewood cutters have still some of the old woods to work in, and here the trees have some chance of recovery. But round the edge of the woods, and over the rocks and stumps, great beans like perennial scarlet-runners (but that their flower i...
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