Die Vegetation der Erde: Sammlung pflanzengeographischer Monographien, Volume 13 |
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Page 66 - Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York, Albany, 1819, 8vo.
Page 6 - Paradise," with specimens. — T. Mcllwraith and TW Reynolds, MD April 6, 1888.— "Notes on the Flora of the 49th Parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
Page 316 - Pennsylvania (lat. 45°-47°), with those of Oregon, and then with those of North-Eastern Asia, we shall find many of our own curiously repeated in the latter, while only a small number of them can be traced along the route even so far as- the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. And these repetitions of East -American types in Japan and neighboring districts are in all degrees of likeness. Sometimes the one is...
Page 63 - Arbustrum Americanum: The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the LInnaean system.
Page 51 - The Silva of North America. A description of the Trees which grow naturally in North America, exclusive of Mexico.
Page 82 - Descriptions of new species and genera of plants in the natural order of the Compositae, collected in a tour across the continent to the Pacific, a residence in Oregon, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands and upper California, during the years 1834 and 1835.
Page 73 - Enumeration of the species of plants collected by Dr. CC Parry and Messrs. Elihu Hall and JP Harbour, during the summer and autumn of 1862, on and near the Rocky Mountains, In Colorado Territory, lat. 36°-41".
Page 341 - Investigations conducted by the Biological Survey have shown that the northward distribution of terrestrial animals and plants is governed by the sum of the positive temperatures for the entire season of growth and reproduction, and that the southward distribution is governed by the mean temperature of a brief period during the hottest part of the year.
Page 95 - ... properly appreciated by geologist and geographer, owing, no doubt, to the fact that its remarkable and continuous ranges are largely submerged beneath the waters of the Caribbean Sea. East-and-west mountain ranges of the Antillean type occur through the Great Antilles, along the Venezuelan and Colombian coast of South America, north of the Orinoco ; in the Isthmus of Panama, Costa Rica, and the eastern parts of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Yucatan, Chiapas, and southern Oaxaca. The two elongated...
Page 316 - Sometimes the one is undistinguishable from the other ; sometimes there is a difference of aspect, but hardly of tangible character ; sometimes the two would be termed marked varieties if they grew naturally in the same forest or in the same region ; sometimes they are what the botanist...