. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. 246 PLANT EELATIONS. made up of trees of different heights, below them are shrubs of varjdng heights, then tall and low herbs, and finally mosses and liverworts. Among these close-set standing forms, great vines or lianas climb and bind the. Fig. 202. A group of aerial plants (epiphytes) from a tropical forest. Note the vari- ous habits of the epiphytes attached to the tree-trunks, and the dangling roots.— After ScHiMPER. standing vegetation into an inextricable tangle (see Figs. 55, ;i01). In addition to these, hosts of aerial plants find lodging place
. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. 246 PLANT EELATIONS. made up of trees of different heights, below them are shrubs of varjdng heights, then tall and low herbs, and finally mosses and liverworts. Among these close-set standing forms, great vines or lianas climb and bind the. Fig. 202. A group of aerial plants (epiphytes) from a tropical forest. Note the vari- ous habits of the epiphytes attached to the tree-trunks, and the dangling roots.— After ScHiMPER. standing vegetation into an inextricable tangle (see Figs. 55, ;i01). In addition to these, hosts of aerial plants find lodging places upon the tree-trunks and vines (see Fig. 202). These rainy forests of the tropics furnish the very best conditions for the development of the numerous epi- phytic orchids, bromelias, etc. In such conditions also. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton and company
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