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FLORA OF MADEIRA.

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given the collective designation of Macaronesia to all these islands, in memory of

Fig. 21. — Madeira-View taken from Mount Sam-Jorge.

the old Greek "Isles of the Blest." Since the Tertiary epoch this flora has

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