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Belonging to genera found only on the mountains of Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and north New Zealand. 3.
Belonging to genera of distribution in many parts of the world (i.e., which tell no particular story). 4.
Belonging to genera found in the northern hemisphere and not in the tropics; or only on mountains in the tropics. I daresay all this (as far as present materials serve) could be extracted from your tables, as they stand; but to any one not familiar with the names of plants, this would be difficult.
I felt particularly the want of not knowing which of the genera are found in the lowland tropics, in understanding the relation of the Antarctic with the Arctic floras. If the Fuegian flora was treated in the analogous way (and this would incidentally show how far the Cordillera are a high-road of genera), I should then be prepared far more easily and satisfactorily to understand the relations of Fuegia with the Auckland Islands, and consequently with the mountains of Van Diemen's Land.
Moreover, the marvellous facts of their intimate botanical relation (between Fuegia and the Auckland Islands, etc.) would stand out more prominently, after the Auckland Islands had been first treated of under the purely geographical relation of position.
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