. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . 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 Crassula Tctragona, 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
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . 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 Crassula Tctragona, 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 asomething to keep them stationaiy, rather than a source of nutriment, R 130 OFF-HAND
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