• DOI:10.1086/332097
• Corpus ID: 83629816

A Survey of the Hawaiian Land Flora

@article{MaccaugheyASO,
  title={A Survey of the Hawaiian Land Flora},
  author={Vaughan Maccaughey},
  journal={Botanical Gazette},
  volume={64},
  pages={89 - 114}
}

• V. Maccaughey
• Published 1 August 1917
• Geology
• Botanical Gazette

The Hawaiian Archipelago has long been known to the scientific world as a peculiarly isolated island world with many extraordinary biological features. The remoteness ofthe group from continental areas, the exclusively volcanic nature of the mountains, the extreme specialization ofmany plant and animal forms-these and many other unique conditions have given particular interest o the biological problems of Hawaii (fig. I). It is the purpose of this paper to make a rapid survey of the prominent characteristics and elements of the Hawaiian land flora.' The timeliness ofsuch a survey is evident o all who have followed the researches of recent years in the various departments of natural science, as these studies have in many instances necessitated extensive revision of previous records. In order to compress the material within reasonable bounds, much interesting detail is necessarily omitted, and numerous problems of great interest from the standpoint of philosophical biology2 can here be accorded only passing mention.