[{358}] In the Origin, Ed. i. p. 390, a strong point is made of birds which immigrated “with facility and in a body” not having been modified. Thus the author accounts for the small percentage of peculiar “marine birds.”
[{359}] “The affinities of the St Helena flora are strongly South African.” Hooker’s Lecture on Insular Floras in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, Jan. 1867.
[{360}] It is impossible to make out the precise form which the author intended to give to this sentence, but the meaning is clear.
[{361}] This is no doubt true, the flora of the Sandwich group however has marked American affinities.
[{362}] See Origin, Ed. i. p. 365, vi. p. 515. The present discussion was written before the publication of Forbes’ celebrated paper on the same subject; see Life and Letters, vol. I. p. 88.
[{363}] The apparent breakdown of the doctrine of barriers is slightly touched on in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 365, vi. p. 515.
[{364}] In the Origin, Ed. i. p. 375, vi. p. 526, the author points out that on the mountains at the Cape of Good Hope “some few representative European forms are found, which have not been discovered in the inter-tropical parts of Africa.”
[{365}] See Hooker’s Lecture on Insular Floras in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, Jan. 1867.
[{366}] In the margin the author has written “(Forbes).” This may have been inserted at a date later than 1844, or it may refer to a work by Forbes earlier than his Alpine paper.
[{367}] See Origin, Ed. i. p. 367, vi. p. 517.