pdf 25 MB - BSBI Archive

STATISTICS, ETC., OF HAWAIIAN PLANTS. 171
• Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants.' (Proc. Araer. Acad. Arts and
Sciences, vol. vii. p. 143.)
'Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.' (Proc. Essex Institute, vol. v.)
The last has not been completed, and a number of other valuable
and interesting memoirs remain unfinished.
Early in October the severer symptoms of what he had considered a
mere cold, compelled him most unwillingly to give up his college
classes, temporarily as we all hoped ;
but the Avorst form of pulmonary
complaint had gone too far to be stopped, and although his friends all
hoped for his recovery, he passed away peacefully on the evening of
November 11th, 18(58, after some days of great pain and anguish.
Sad as it seems to us, in our blind intei-pretations of Providence,
that a life so full of promise, so pure, so trae, a life so short and yet
so full of results, should be cut short, yet the example of this life,
called so closely to view by the angel of death, cannot but animate and
encourage many others ; and the nobly proportioned column, whose
base and lower shaft alone we see on earth, yet raises its capital above
the veiling clouds, a monument and beacon we may well follow.
STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHICAL EANGE OF HA-
WAIIAN (SANDWICH ISLANDS) PLANTS.
By Horace Mann, Esq.
The Hawaiian Islands have a surface of about 4000 square miles,
situated just within the tropics, and more than one thousand miles
from any other land except a few rocks lying to the north-west, bare of
vegetation, and inhabited by seafowl and seals. On this area, which
includes an excessively dry and hot, a very wet and very hot, and from
these every other variety to a very dry aud very cold climate, is found
a flora of 620 species of flowering -plants * and Ferns, of which the
former comprise 485 species, the latter 13.5 ; the Mosses, Lichens,
and Algae being left out of consideration as too little known.
Of the 554 flowering plants, including 69 species supposed or
known to be introduced, 479 species belong to the Dlcotijledonce, and
the remaining 75 to the Monocoti/ledoncB, in the proportion of nearly
* Omitting Gramineee, which have not jet been fully studied.
o 2