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Guppy, H.B. 1917.
Plants, seeds, and currents in the West Indies and Azores:
the results of investigations carried out in those regions between 1906 and 1914.

Table of Contents

Chapter	Contents	Page
I	West Indian Beach Drift	1
II	The West Indian Drift on European Shores	20
III	The currents of the Atlantic and the tracks of drifting seeds as illustrated by bottle drift	46
IV	The similarity between the West Indian and West African littoral floras as explained by curents	83
V	Rhizophora mangle and the plants of the great morass of the Black River District in Jamaica	96
VI	The larger foreign drift of the Turks Islands	111
VII	The larger foreign drift of the Turks Islands (continued)	138
VIII	Miscallaneous plants	166
IX	Miscallaneous plants (continued)	197
X	Miscallaneous plants (continued)	225
XI	The general characters and geological structure of the Turks Islands	254
XII	The flora of the Turks Island	277
XIII	The current-connections in the southern hemisphere	294
XIV	Differentiation	313
XV	Distribution	323
XVI	The influence of the divergence of the continents on the distribution of Sphagnum and Carex	332
XVII	The Azores	359
XVIII	The Azores (continued)	389
XIX	The Azores (continued)	417
	Appendix	441
	Index	505

Maps and Illustrations

West Indian seeds and fruits represented in European beach-drift	Frontispiece
The ocean currents	to face page 46
The Turks Islands	254
The Island of Pico, Azores	359