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DISTRIBUTION OF VEGETATION IN THE COLDER SOUTH HEMISPHERE. 405
Hooker’s term »Flora antarctica» and finds that it exactly expresses
the »place au milieu des flores voisines» of the Fuegian flora. But
in a footnote (1) he remarks, that Hooker uses the word »antarctic»
in too wide a sense: »Certes la flore fuégienne appartient au
domaine de la grande flore antarctique, mais elle est loin d’être la
même, ni par sa composition, ni par ses formations végétales,
que, par exemple, celle de l’île Kerguelen ou même celle des îles
Malouines.»
He seems then, as well as other authors, to want the term
»antarctic» specially to express the character of the Fuegian
vegetation.
Of all the lands spoken about here, Schimper (34) only
mentions Fuegia, New Zealand and the Falklands, which he treats among
the temperate zones. Concerning the antarctic regions, he only
remarks (p. 46) that they are said to be quite destitute of any trace
of land vegetation.
In a posthumous work, AlbofF (2) deals with the
phytogeographi-cal position of the Fuegian flora, and unites Fuegia, the Falklands,
South Georgia and Kerguelen in one region, to which he gives
the name »Fuegian». He declares (p. 12-13) that he will not
use the term »antarctic», proposed by Hooker - but this author
did not use the term only for this region, but also for the islands
south of New Zealand! - nor the word »Magellanian» proposed
by Ball (4). By the »élément antarctique» that forms a part of
the Fuegian flora, AlbofF seems to mean those plants common to
Fuegia and the »îles antarctiques». Amongst these, however, he
reckons Kerguelen and Tristan d’Acunha, as well as Auckland and
Campbell. The attribute »antarctic» is not »tout à fait régulaire»,
but »le nom étant consacré par un long usage nous le garderons,
faute de mieux» (p. 27).
In his last survey of the vegetation of the earth (1903), Engler
has changed his old arrangement in some respects. As subdivisions
under his »Austral (palæooceanic) realm» we find: A.
Austral-ant-arktisches Gebiet Südamerikas, with two provinces, »Westliche
Waldprovinz» (= the same author’s former antarctic forest region)
and »Waldlose Inselprovinz» (= Falklands and South Georgia);
B. Gebiet der Kerguelen; C. Neuseeländisches Gebiet; D.
Australisches Gebiet; E. Gebiet von Tristan d’Acunha, St. Paul und
Amsterdaminseln. The most important alterations are that the
Falklands have been joined to the austral realm, the Cape Land
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