. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Alpine Flora. Pinus ponderosa Prairie Flora. Sequoia, and edulis. Algarrobia glandulosa. Finns Aus'ialis. Quercus cras^ifolia HjematoxyloTi and reticulata. campechiunum. Cereus giganteue. Deserts. 620 Miles. exclusively occupied by short herbage and grasses. But owing to the overlapping of the vegetable zones of different temperatures, the pines of the uplands have almost everj^where encroached upon the temperate regions, and have even descended bdow the line of 3,500 feet. The dominant types of trees are represented by a great number of species, about seve

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Alpine Flora. Pinus ponderosa Prairie Flora. Sequoia, and edulis. Algarrobia glandulosa. Finns Aus'ialis. Quercus cras^ifolia HjematoxyloTi and reticulata. campechiunum. Cereus giganteue. Deserts. 620 Miles. exclusively occupied by short herbage and grasses. But owing to the overlapping of the vegetable zones of different temperatures, the pines of the uplands have almost everj^where encroached upon the temperate regions, and have even descended bdow the line of 3,500 feet. The dominant types of trees are represented by a great number of species, about seventy-five varieties of the oak having been found on the slopes of Orizaba alone- The ahuehuetcs or " cypresses " of Chapultepec, Atlisco, Oaxaca, which belong to the same species as those of Louisiana {taxodium dktichiDn), grow to a colossul size ; they are classed by Humboldt with the giants of the vegetable kingdom.

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