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great family, did not their flowers, which have not appreciably experienced 

 the influence of the climate, at once tell another tale. 



Fig. 283. Sclerophyllous flora of the Mediterranean. Pinus Pinea. From a photograph. 



In the Mediterranean countries, the number of the common sclerophyllous 

 plants is so great, that a selection of specially important forms will always 



