Schimper. Geographical Botany. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TYPES OF FORMATIONS ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE. 



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E5i I. Luxuriant tropical rain-forest and monsoon-forest. 



r 1 II. Less luxuriant rain-forest and particularly 

 monsoon -forest 



I | III. Xerophilous woodland of a 



tropical Stamp (savannah-forest 

 and particularly thorn-forest). 



I ,.,| VII. Orassland (savannah, steppe, meadow), devoid of woodland or 

 only with narrow fringing-forest by water-courses. 



I I VIII. Grassland as a climatic formation. Wood- 

 land as an edaphic formation (nygrophiioas 



r bodies of water, in depressions, and like places; 

 xerophilous on very permeable soil) , more or less 

 abundantly represented. 



I I IX. Park-like landscape made 



up of forest and meadow, situa- 

 ted in the belts of the tempe- 

 shavingcold winters. 



I I IV. Temperate rain-forest. 

 I 1 V. Sclerophyllous woodland 

 I I VI. Summer-forest 



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I 1 X. Desert. 



I 1 XI. Alpine Desert. 



I 1 XII. Tundra. 



I 1 XIII. Semi-desert. 



