. Contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory. Plants. ig 19] VESTAL—PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF COLORADO 171 flowing streams and their tributaries. On it rests the highland of the Spanish Peaks, and it is ribbed by resistant dikes of igneous material from two outflows, one set radiating downward from the peaks themselves. With the plateaus should be classed the high lava-capped mesas of the mountain-front and plains in the area near the Colorado-New Mexico boundary. As in the hogback ridges, vegetation distribution in the plateau and butte areas is largely determined by soil texture and topog- rap
. Contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory. Plants. ig 19] VESTAL—PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF COLORADO 171 flowing streams and their tributaries. On it rests the highland of the Spanish Peaks, and it is ribbed by resistant dikes of igneous material from two outflows, one set radiating downward from the peaks themselves. With the plateaus should be classed the high lava-capped mesas of the mountain-front and plains in the area near the Colorado-New Mexico boundary. As in the hogback ridges, vegetation distribution in the plateau and butte areas is largely determined by soil texture and topog- raphy. Atmospheric conditions vary with exposure to wind and sun. The tops of the plateaus are covered with short-grass and 4 -\ " li •*•'-<•"„''. 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 Hull Botanical Laboratory. [Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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