+f 
: BS [ 300 | 
Western Africa 3', ; Temp. ‘y's s Corey zi [Sicily 3, Sweden — 
ry x: Balearic is ag asi] en ao and +1,. 
“ BRICEX.— Ty i a ti France ;:° many 
Sy America a's : Frozen. Lapland 54. 
rop. America 
"ee America 2 g3; Frozen. Lapland 3, 
= LIFER&.—Scarcely any in 
he togetine 4 in. equinoctial Americ. 
0 
oe Lemp. France ;';, Germany ,},, 
1 
the ¢repics below 7,000 feet, but 
a, both the plains and the high moun- 
tains, zra; In the Temp. zone, much more in the old yh an in the new 
world; Frat:ce J,, North Americ 
merica J, ; zen. Laplan 
= comparing the two worlds, we OE in general. in 4 nine beret 
Under the equator, fewer Cyperacex and Cinchonacee, and mo si. 
the temperate zone, fewer Labiate ahd — fer, and lire Com- 
posite, Kricee, and Amentacez, than in the eco nding zones of the » 
old world. The families that increase from the ante towards the pees 
(according to the method of fractions,) are Glumacex, Ericee, and Ame 
taceae - those which diminish from the equator to the pole, are Legumil 
nose, Rubiacez, Euphorbiaces, and Malvaceve ; the families that appear 
to attain their maximum in ,the eee zone, are Composite, Labiate, 
a ite ba end: Cruciferz 
T’o these most instructive di interesting remarks, Humboldt has added 
the following table - 
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