. Wild flowers and trees of Colorado. Botany. COLORADO WILD FLOWERS II altitude there is a loweiing of temperature to the extent of about three degrees Fahrenheit so that if the people in Denver are fanning them- selves and trying to keep cool in a temperature of eighty in the shade, the camper or fisherman up at Tolland will find it cool and pleasant for strenuous exercise, since he is 4,000 feet higher and is enjoying a tempera-. Fig. 11.—Mesas near Boulder, Colo. The mesas are flat-topped hills which extend out, peninsula-like, to the plains. Next to the mountains the mesas are covered with
. Wild flowers and trees of Colorado. Botany. COLORADO WILD FLOWERS II altitude there is a loweiing of temperature to the extent of about three degrees Fahrenheit so that if the people in Denver are fanning them- selves and trying to keep cool in a temperature of eighty in the shade, the camper or fisherman up at Tolland will find it cool and pleasant for strenuous exercise, since he is 4,000 feet higher and is enjoying a tempera-. Fig. 11.—Mesas near Boulder, Colo. The mesas are flat-topped hills which extend out, peninsula-like, to the plains. Next to the mountains the mesas are covered with pines while toward the plains they are as treeless as the plains themselves. ture' of sixty-eight. This difference of temperature has its effect on the plant population. Indeed there are very few wild plants at Denver which also grow wild at such an altitude as that of Tolland. Differences observed in regard to plants of the mountains which distinguish them from the plains species are generally ascribed to "alti-. 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 Ramaley, Francis, 1870-1942. Boulder, A. A. Greenman
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