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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... side . It will be understood that the survey is limited to the United States proper , reaching latitude 47 ° on the Atlantic and 49 ° 40 ′ on the Pacific side , in all of which the proper alpine flora is confined to high altitudes ...
... side . It will be understood that the survey is limited to the United States proper , reaching latitude 47 ° on the Atlantic and 49 ° 40 ′ on the Pacific side , in all of which the proper alpine flora is confined to high altitudes ...
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... side . Of herbaceous types the whole central region has none ; the Pacific coast has Vancouveria and Achlys , peculiar genera of single species ; the Atlantic has those four special genera , Caulophyllum , Diphylleia , Jeffersonia , and ...
... side . Of herbaceous types the whole central region has none ; the Pacific coast has Vancouveria and Achlys , peculiar genera of single species ; the Atlantic has those four special genera , Caulophyllum , Diphylleia , Jeffersonia , and ...
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... side , the reduced type Flærkea on the Atlantic side also ; all wanting to the Rocky Mountain flora . OXALIDEÆ . - A very few species of Oxalis , one peculiar to the east and one to the west , one to the east and middle , and the O ...
... side , the reduced type Flærkea on the Atlantic side also ; all wanting to the Rocky Mountain flora . OXALIDEÆ . - A very few species of Oxalis , one peculiar to the east and one to the west , one to the east and middle , and the O ...
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... side it is replaced by an equally poisonous and very similar species . Southern California has two other species of South American type . LEGUMINOSÆ . - This being one of the very largest orders in most parts of the world , only ...
... side it is replaced by an equally poisonous and very similar species . Southern California has two other species of South American type . LEGUMINOSÆ . - This being one of the very largest orders in most parts of the world , only ...
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... side , is an Old World type . POMEÆ . The amphigaan genera or groups , Cratagus , Malus , Sorbus , Amelanchier , extend across the continent at the north , one Sorbus in the very same species ; only Crataegus on the Atlantic side ...
... side , is an Old World type . POMEÆ . The amphigaan genera or groups , Cratagus , Malus , Sorbus , Amelanchier , extend across the continent at the north , one Sorbus in the very same species ; only Crataegus on the Atlantic side ...
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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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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...