The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 38° 65° West or (jreernwich 18 Miles. These European species would appear to have improved the pasturage by the de- velopment of the ixiato hlando or pasto tierno, tender herbage good for sheep, with a corresponding decrease of the jjf^^^o duro, or coarse grasses on which horses chiefly graze. Compared with the other vegetable zones the pampas flora comprises but a small number of species, which, however, are remarkable for their prodigious ex- pansion. But the (/'/ncriuni argoiteiirn, known in E
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 38° 65° West or (jreernwich 18 Miles. These European species would appear to have improved the pasturage by the de- velopment of the ixiato hlando or pasto tierno, tender herbage good for sheep, with a corresponding decrease of the jjf^^^o duro, or coarse grasses on which horses chiefly graze. Compared with the other vegetable zones the pampas flora comprises but a small number of species, which, however, are remarkable for their prodigious ex- pansion. But the (/'/ncriuni argoiteiirn, known in Europe by the name of 'pam- pas grass,' does not occur in the pampas proper, but only on the slopes of the mountains, and in the moist barrancas or bottom-lands on the Patagonian frontier.
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