 I have seen the trees diminish in number, give place to wide prairies, restrict their growth to the borders of streams, and then disappear from the boundless drier plains; have seen grassy plains change into a brown and sere desert, — desert in the...  The American Naturalist - Page 5781872Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...— have seen a fair growth of coniferous trees adorning the more favored slopes of a mountain-range, high enough to compel summer showers ; have traversed...reached at length the westward slopes of the high mountain-barrier, which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...— have seen a fair growth of coniferous trees adorning the more favored slopes of a mountain-range, high enough to compel summer showers ; have traversed...born ; and have reached at length the westward slopes ot the high mountain-barrier, which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 848 pages
...high enough to compel summer showers; have traversed that broad and bare elevated region shut ofl' on both sides by high mountains from the moisture...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1873 - 352 pages
...haunts many a plant and flower which for me had long bloomed unseen, or only in the hortus siccus. I have been able to see for myself what species and...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1873 - 352 pages
...haunts many a plant and flower which for me had long bloomed unseen, or only in the hortus siccus. I have been able to see for myself what species and...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
 | Henry Woodward - Electronic journals - 1873 - 680 pages
...Nortt American continent from the east to the west coast, and dwells especially upon the scenery of the westward slopes of the high mountain barrier,...bears the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the coast-range, and among them trees which are the wonder of the world. "Although (says Dr. Asa Gray)... | |
 | Henry Woodward - Electronic journals - 1873 - 644 pages
...North American continent from the east to the west coast, and dwells especially upon the scenery of the westward slopes of the high mountain barrier,...bears the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the coast-range, and among them trees which are the wonder of the world. "Although (says Dr. Asa Gray)... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 520 pages
...Advancement of Science. Delivered at Dubuque, Iowa, August, 1872. (Proceedings American Association, xxi. 1.) Passing on from the eastern district, marked by its...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 552 pages
...from the boundless drier plains; have seen grassy plains change into a brown and sere desert,—desert in the common sense, but hardly anywhere botanic-ally...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
 | Enos A. Mills - National parks and reserves - 1917 - 650 pages
...to the border of streams; . . . have seen grassy plains change into a brown and sere desert; . . . and have reached at length the westward slopes of...mountain barrier which, refreshed by the Pacific, bear the noble forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and among them trees which are the... | |
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