The araucaria is one of many South Chilian plants which relish the climate of western Britain and Ireland. The character of climate in these widely-separated regions is curiously similar, though from diametrically opposite causes. In Chile abundant moisture arises from the afflux of a cold ocean current upon a warm coast; in the British Isles a warm ocean current flows upon the colder land.
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FOOTNOTES:
[ [1] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Introduction, p. xv.
[ [2] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 334.
[ [3] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 328.
[ [4] Sylva, chap. iii. section 2.
[ [5] The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, by H. J. Elwes and Augustine Henry, vol. i. p. 20.
[ [6] Holly.