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Title: Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2

Author: H. B. Guppy

Release date: June 11, 2017 [eBook #54889]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST IN THE
 
PACIFIC BETWEEN 1896 AND 1899

[Frontispiece.

Selala (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄3).

Fruits with seedlings nearly ready to fall from the tree of Rhizophora mangle (shortest) and Rhizophora mucronata (longest). From Vanua Levu, Fiji. (1⁄4 of the true length.)

Rhizophora mangle (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄4).

Rhizophora mucronata (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄5).

OBSERVATIONS OF
A NATURALIST IN
THE PACIFIC BETWEEN
1896 AND 1899
BY
H. B. GUPPY, M.B., F.R.S.E.
VOLUME II
PLANT-DISPERSAL
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906
All rights reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
Dedication
TO THOSE NUMEROUS PERSONS TO WHOM I WAS INDEBTED FOR
GREAT KINDNESS AND ASSISTANCE DURING MY
SOJOURN IN HAWAII AND FIJI