. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. mes in the formof large trees, frequently of bushes, still more usually of diminu-tive weeds, and occasionally of deformed,leafless succulent plants,resembling Indian Figs in aspect, but differing from them inevery other particular. In the Western world they graduallydiminish as they recede from the equator, so that not above 50species are known in North America, of which a very smallnumber reaches as far as Canada. In the Old World theknown tropical proportion is much smaller,
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. mes in the formof large trees, frequently of bushes, still more usually of diminu-tive weeds, and occasionally of deformed,leafless succulent plants,resembling Indian Figs in aspect, but differing from them inevery other particular. In the Western world they graduallydiminish as they recede from the equator, so that not above 50species are known in North America, of which a very smallnumber reaches as far as Canada. In the Old World theknown tropical proportion is much smaller, arising probablyfrom the species of India and equinoctial Africa not havingbeen described with the same care as those of America ; notabove an eighth having been found in tropical Africa, includingthe islands ; a sixth is perhaps about the proportion in good many species inhabit the Cape, where, and in the Northof Africa, they often assume a succulent hai3it; and there arealmost 120 species from Europe, including the basin of theMediterranean: of which 16 only are found in Great Britain,and 7 in
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