In June and July, 1961, the writer made a concentrated search for Characeae in Fiji. Whereas these plants had previously been known only from outlying islands of Ovalau and Macuata-i-wai, they were found to be ...

Haploid chromosome complements are recorded for two species of Psilotaceae, and for 36 species and one variety of ferns (27 species from New Caledonia, 7 species and 1 variety from New Zealand, and 1 species from ...

The black corals (Order Anriparharia) are found in all oceans. However, the great majority of the 150 species have been collected with dredges below the limits of human observation (see Table 1). It is therefore not ...

The theory is proposed that the fern floras of the South Pacific, while being predominantly recently Malaysian in origin, consist also of two older elements, one being relics only of an ancient world-wide flora, the other ...

Littoral cones are formed by steam explosions resulting when lava flows enter the sea. Of about 50 littoral cones on the shores of Mauna Loa and Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, three were formed in historic time: 1840, ...