. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 5° BOTANICAL GAZETTE â [JULY of the river, but it by no means exhausts the interesting features of the region. If the low-lying contiguous areas to the westward capable of being flooded are included, the delta may be said to have an area approximately equal to the state of Connecticut. One arm extends over 200km to the northwestward and includes the Salton Basin, with its exposed bottom more than 130⢠below the level of tlie sea. Although the summer Hoods of extreme height find their. Fig. 2.âView of Rio Colorado at a point where it
. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 5° BOTANICAL GAZETTE â [JULY of the river, but it by no means exhausts the interesting features of the region. If the low-lying contiguous areas to the westward capable of being flooded are included, the delta may be said to have an area approximately equal to the state of Connecticut. One arm extends over 200km to the northwestward and includes the Salton Basin, with its exposed bottom more than 130⢠below the level of tlie sea. Although the summer Hoods of extreme height find their. Fig. 2.âView of Rio Colorado at a point where it cuts into the desert mesa of Sonora a few kilometers south of international boundary; looking downstream; Populus and Salix on right hank; dense forest of Populus in background on left bank; portion of mesa in foreground on left bank with Covillea, Stillingia, and Ephedra; Station 3. way by old channels into this basin, creating a temporary lake of great extent, yet the district affected must be classed as desert, since the highly saline character of the soil and prevailing low humidity and precipitation support representative types of vegetation (fig. 4).° Other basins ordinarily dry, with saline deposits, are to be found in various parts of the depressed area, which has the characteristics of a sea-floor of comparatively recent date. 9 See also COVILLE and MacDougal, The Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution (November 1903), pp. 21-22. pis. 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 New York Botanical Garden. New York : The Garden
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