. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . FIG. 12.—CLUB-MOSS. FIG. 13.—LEPIDODENDRA. indicating a much larger size, figs. 13 and 14. Figure 15 exhibits aspecimen of a numerous family, called Crassiila Tdragona, probablyallied to the above species, which are found at the Cape of GoodHope. They occur in the driest situations, where not a blade ofgrass nor a particle of moss can grow, on naked rocks, old walls, orhot sandy plains, alternately exposed to the heaviest dews of night,and the most intense rays of the noon-
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . FIG. 12.—CLUB-MOSS. FIG. 13.—LEPIDODENDRA. indicating a much larger size, figs. 13 and 14. Figure 15 exhibits aspecimen of a numerous family, called Crassiila Tdragona, probablyallied to the above species, which are found at the Cape of GoodHope. They occur in the driest situations, where not a blade ofgrass nor a particle of moss can grow, on naked rocks, old walls, orhot sandy plains, alternately exposed to the heaviest dews of night,and the most intense rays of the noon-day sun. Soil is to them aynmething to keep them stationary, rather than a source of nutriment, B 130 Orr-HAND SKETCHES.
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