. Botanisk tidsskrift. Plants; Plants -- Denmark. 255 fine spray from the sea far over the land. On the stony clayish beach, where now and then rocks emerge, the vegetation consists of a quite low dense dark-green cover 1—3 inches high. The greater part of the vegetation is Dactyloctenium cegyptium (L.) Willd., with quite short 1—2 cm. long, pruinous, long-haired leaves, and intermingled with it Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kth. Among these grasses were growing low, dense mounds of Pedis humifusa Sw. with fresh-green, small, smooth, rather thick, stiff leaves and yellow flowers and Tephrosia cin
. Botanisk tidsskrift. Plants; Plants -- Denmark. 255 fine spray from the sea far over the land. On the stony clayish beach, where now and then rocks emerge, the vegetation consists of a quite low dense dark-green cover 1—3 inches high. The greater part of the vegetation is Dactyloctenium cegyptium (L.) Willd., with quite short 1—2 cm. long, pruinous, long-haired leaves, and intermingled with it Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kth. Among these grasses were growing low, dense mounds of Pedis humifusa Sw. with fresh-green, small, smooth, rather thick, stiff leaves and yellow flowers and Tephrosia cinerea (L.) Pers. with grey-felted unevenly pinnate leaves. Scattered among the grass the thick-leaved Portulacca oleracea L. with prostrate stems appeared and Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd. with thick tuberous roots, and fleshy linear leaves, and lastly, Lippia nodifiora Rich, with its. Fig. 37. Croton flavins L. A wind-blown specimen from Judiths Fancy, St. Croix. (F. B. phot.) rooting branches was creeping here and there among the grass. In a few places where the soil was more sandy, there occurred some small stunted tendrils of Ipomcea pes caprce with enormously thick leaves, or a small Opuntia-mound was prominent. This vegetation reaches rather far into the country, and passes gradually into low Cro^on-copse. At first the Cro^on-bushes are quite espalier-shaped, adhering tightly to the ground with all the branches turning the same way, like a banner blown away by the wind. Fig. 37 shows a photograph of such a Croton-bush. And not only are these smaller bushes stamped by the enormous power of the wind, but the Coccoloha and the manchineel are also bent to the ground by it. Here and there on the slightly sloping flat were found some scattered growing specimens of these species which were all more or less lying tightly pressed against the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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