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. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ■jfc «-«*w: F {Euphorbia, Plocama, Launea, etc.), Maritime h,e-flowered, bv Volcano of Arafo, 5150 feet. TENERIFE 99 yellow flowers very similar to the gorse. The formeris more characteristic of this sub-zone than the latter, forwhereas I have never seen the Escobon below the pines,the Codeso is far from uncommon in the Monte Verde,growing in company with the white-flowered lower illustration facing page 98 shows the Escobonand Codeso above t
. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . ■jfc «-«*w: F {Euphorbia, Plocama, Launea, etc.), Maritime h,e-flowered, bv Volcano of Arafo, 5150 feet. TENERIFE 99 yellow flowers very similar to the gorse. The formeris more characteristic of this sub-zone than the latter, forwhereas I have never seen the Escobon below the pines,the Codeso is far from uncommon in the Monte Verde,growing in company with the white-flowered lower illustration facing page 98 shows the Escobonand Codeso above the Arafo Volcano, and was takenat a height of 5150 feet. The rose-flowered Cistusvaginatus was growing plentifully at this elevation, butwas not found above ; it is rather a flower of the MonteVerde Zone. Many hundreds of acres in Tenerife arecovered with the two fodder-plants, the natives living inthe villages along the north-western slopes making longjourneys to obtain sufficient for their needs. Thereseem to be no restrictions as to the amount which canbe cut, and in the evening whole families—men, women,and children—wend their way down the steep, exceed-ingly bad, mountain-paths, carryi
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