Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Volume 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1882 - Geological surveys |
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... abundant condensation of moisture , mostly in the form of snow . The Rocky Mountain region may be therefore divided vertically into three botanical districts : 1. An arid and woodless district , which occupies far the greater part of ...
... abundant condensation of moisture , mostly in the form of snow . The Rocky Mountain region may be therefore divided vertically into three botanical districts : 1. An arid and woodless district , which occupies far the greater part of ...
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... abundantly appear in the com- parison to be made in another part of this report . Reasons connected with geographical ... abundant and well distributed rainfall , and summers not excessively warm , the Atlantic and Pacific forests join ...
... abundantly appear in the com- parison to be made in another part of this report . Reasons connected with geographical ... abundant and well distributed rainfall , and summers not excessively warm , the Atlantic and Pacific forests join ...
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... abundantly on sandy beaches and river flats at less ele- vations . " Loving moisture and coolness , it is also a coast species even as far south as Mendocino County , California , whence it extends to the Yukon River , in latitude 630 ...
... abundantly on sandy beaches and river flats at less ele- vations . " Loving moisture and coolness , it is also a coast species even as far south as Mendocino County , California , whence it extends to the Yukon River , in latitude 630 ...
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... abundant in those of Col- orado and New Mexico . It extends along the northern Rocky Mount- ains almost to latitude 54 ° , and a stunted variety descends on its east- ern flanks . It is found scattered among other Coniferæ at middle ele ...
... abundant in those of Col- orado and New Mexico . It extends along the northern Rocky Mount- ains almost to latitude 54 ° , and a stunted variety descends on its east- ern flanks . It is found scattered among other Coniferæ at middle ele ...
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... abundant enough in the region under consideration to be of much account . Juniperus occidentalis and J. Californica , the Western Red Cedars , have also a great range , a dubious variety of the former ( too near a Mexican species ) ...
... abundant enough in the region under consideration to be of much account . Juniperus occidentalis and J. Californica , the Western Red Cedars , have also a great range , a dubious variety of the former ( too near a Mexican species ) ...
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Page 75 - ... synchronous. The beds in the lower latitudes must be later, and were forming when Greenland probably had very nearly the climate which it has now. Wherefore the high, and not the low, latitudes must be assumed as the birth-place of our present flora;* and the present arctic vegetation is best regarded as a derivative of the temperate. This flora, which when circumpolar was as nearly homogeneous round the high latitudes as the arctic vegetation is now, when slowly translated into lower latitudes,...
Page 69 - Nor in any of the genera common to the two does the Pacific forest equal the Atlantic in species. It has not half as many Maples, nor Ashes, nor Poplars, nor Walnuts, nor Birches, and those it has are of smaller size and...
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