The result was that 18/98 of his seeds of different kinds floated for forty-two days, and were then capable of germination.

But I do not doubt that plants exposed to the waves would float for a less time than those protected from violent movement as in our experiments.

Therefore, it would perhaps be safer to assume that the seeds of about 10/100 plants of a flora, after having been dried, could be floated across a space of sea 900 miles in width, and would then germinate.

The fact of the larger fruits often floating longer than the small, is interesting; as plants with large seeds or fruit which, as Alph.