Metrosideros polymorpha, ranging through all the zones.
NOTE 82 (page [416])
Aboriginal Weeds[[7]]
(Found by Captain Cook’s Botanists, Banks, Solander, the Forsters, Nelson, &c.,
in the Pacific Islands, 1768-80)
| Locality given by Cook’s botanists. | General distribution. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardamine sarmentosa | Tahiti | Polynesia. Introduced into Peru. | ||||
| Sida microphylla | Tonga, New Hebrides | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Sida rhombifolia | New Hebrides. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Urena lobata | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Waltheria americana | Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| New Caledonia | ||||||
| Oxalis corniculata | Tahiti | Old and New World. | ||||
| Cardiospermum halicacabum | Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Desmodium polycarpum | Tahiti | Old World. | ||||
| Phaseolus truxillensis | Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Lablab vulgaris | Tahiti | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Abrus precatorius | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Cassia sophora | Tonga | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Hydrocotyle asiatica | New Caledonia | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Oldenlandia tenuifolia | New Hebrides | Old World? | ||||
| Oldenlandia paniculata | Tonga | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Geophila reniformis | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Ageratum conyzoides | New Hebrides. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Adenostemma viscosum | Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Eclipta alba | New Hebrides | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Siegesbeckia orientalis | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Bidens pilosa | Tonga | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Dichrocephala latifolia | Tahiti, Tonga, New Hebrides | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Sonchus asper | Tonga, New Zealand | Old World. | ||||
| Ipomœa insularis | New Hebrides, Tonga, Hawaii | Australia and Polynesia. | ||||
| Ipomœa bona-nox | New Hebrides, Tonga, Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Solanum nigrum, var. oleraceum. | Tahiti. H. | Old and New World. | ||||
| Physalis angulata | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Vandellia crustacea | Tahiti | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Leucas decemdentata | Tahiti | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Teucrium inflatum | Tonga | New World tropics. | ||||
| Amarantus melancholicus, var. tricolor | New Hebrides, Tahiti | Old World. | ||||
| Euxolus caudatus | Tonga, Tahiti | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Achyranthes aspera | Tahiti | Old and New World. | ||||
| Cyathula prostrata | Tahiti | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Fleurya interrupta | Tahiti, Tonga | Old World tropics. | ||||
| Commelina pacifica | Tonga, New Caledonia. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
| Eleusine indica | Tahiti. H. | Tropics of Old and New World. | ||||
[7]. Seemann is the principal authority, the results of his examination of the old collections being given in his Flora Vitiensis. Species regarded by Hillebrand as indigenous in Hawaii or as existing in that group at the time of its discovery by Cook are indicated by H in the second column.
NOTES 83-89 omitted
NOTE 90 (page [29])
On the Buoyancy of the Seeds of Euphorbia amygdaloides and E. segetalis
The seeds of both species have no proper buoyancy, and display no structure in their testas suggesting it; though, through the shrinking of the nucleus, a temporary floating power may be acquired with less mature or imperfect seeds. They support the general principle indicated for the British species on page [29].