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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... marked by the scantiness or absence of arboreal vegetation and of rainfall , the former being in great measure dependent on the lat- ter . Its plains are treeless except along water - courses ; the mountains bear trees along sheltered ...
... marked by the scantiness or absence of arboreal vegetation and of rainfall , the former being in great measure dependent on the lat- ter . Its plains are treeless except along water - courses ; the mountains bear trees along sheltered ...
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... marked , and the general botany is comparatively homogeneous throughout the whole latitude , the Atlantic and Pacific for- ests being there in fact confluent . Along the southern border , under very different conditions and with little ...
... marked , and the general botany is comparatively homogeneous throughout the whole latitude , the Atlantic and Pacific for- ests being there in fact confluent . Along the southern border , under very different conditions and with little ...
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... marked and wholly North American genus , has given one species to the Atlantic forest , and shared two or three with the western region . But the characteristic features of the Rocky Mountain herbaceous vegetation in the region ...
... marked and wholly North American genus , has given one species to the Atlantic forest , and shared two or three with the western region . But the characteristic features of the Rocky Mountain herbaceous vegetation in the region ...
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... marked effect in carrying this woodless district farther eastward than it otherwise might have reached.t Along with this , a more hypothetical cause may be assigned , which , if valid , will help in other explanations . That natural ...
... marked effect in carrying this woodless district farther eastward than it otherwise might have reached.t Along with this , a more hypothetical cause may be assigned , which , if valid , will help in other explanations . That natural ...
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... marked family in North America . The amphigaan genus Berberis has genuine Atlantic and one ( southern ) Rocky Mountain species ; the western mountains have a characteristic and common low Mahonia ( and another on the southern border ) ...
... marked family in North America . The amphigaan genus Berberis has genuine Atlantic and one ( southern ) Rocky Mountain species ; the western mountains have a characteristic and common low Mahonia ( and another on the southern border ) ...
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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...
Page 459 - Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale, depuis la côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil et de la Guyane, en descendant la rivière des Amazones.
Page 76 - To what extent displaced, and how far superseded by the vegetation which in our day borders the ice, or by ice itself, it is difficult to form more than general conjectures, so different and conflicting are the views of geologists upon the Glacial period. But upon any, or almost any. of these views it is safe to conclude that temperate vegetation, such as preceded the refrigeration, and has now again succeeded it, was either thrust out of northern Europe and the northern Atlantic States or was reduced...