The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ster fruticosus, Ledeb.) occur alreadyat Mesenkin (71° 28 ), and the Briochov Islands (70° to71° ), are in several places covered with rich and luxuriantthickets of bushes. But the limit of trees proper is consideredto begin first at the great bend which the river makes in ^ As specimens of the sub-fossil mollusc fauna of the tundra some ofthe common species are delineated on page 288. These are : —- 1. Mya arenaria^lAn. § of natural 9. Fusua fornicatus, J
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ster fruticosus, Ledeb.) occur alreadyat Mesenkin (71° 28 ), and the Briochov Islands (70° to71° ), are in several places covered with rich and luxuriantthickets of bushes. But the limit of trees proper is consideredto begin first at the great bend which the river makes in ^ As specimens of the sub-fossil mollusc fauna of the tundra some ofthe common species are delineated on page 288. These are : —- 1. Mya arenaria^lAn. § of natural 9. Fusua fornicatus, JieQYe. i. size. 10. Fusus tomatus, Gould. |. 2. Mya truncata, Lin. var. Udde- 11. Margarita elegantinsima, Bean. raUensh, Forbes, f. Natural size. .3. pholadis, Lin. §. 12. Pleurotorim piicifera, Wood. 4. Tellina lata, Gmel. f. Natural size. 5. CardhancHiatum, Fabr. §. 13. Pleuroioma j^f/rcimidalis, Leda peruuIa,Mu\\. , 1^. Steenstr. Natural size. 14. Trichntropis horealm, Brod. H. 7. A^Mc«/rteay««sa, Reeve. Nat. size. 15. Natica hclicoides, Johnst. Nat. 8. Fnsus Kroyeri, Moll, f. SUB-FOSSIL MARtNE CRUSTACEA KROM THE TDNDRA. CHAP, viii ] A PBIMEVAL FOREST. 289 69° 40 , a little north of Dudino. Here the hills arecovered with a sort of wood consisting of half-withered, grey,moss-grown larches (Larix sibirica), which seldom reach aheight of more than seven to ten metres, and which much lessdeserve the name of trees than the luxuriant alder busheswhich grow nearly 2° farther north. But some few miles southof this place, and still far north of the Arctic Circle, the pineforest becomes tall. Here begins a veritable forest, the greatestthe earth has to show, extending with little interruption fromthe Ural to the neighbourhood of the Sea of Ochotsk, and fromthe fifty-eighth or fifty-ninth degree of latitude to far northof the Arctic Circle, that is to say, about one thousand kilo-metres from north to south, and perhaps four times a
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