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Portrait of the Author .......... 



Florida : marijiii of a swamp-forest in Monroe County .... 



Friiiying-woodland along a river-bank, in an arid steppe-district, South 



Daliota 



Monsoon-forest in iJiirma. Bwel Reserve, Thar.awadi, Burma 



Tropical thorn-forest, Mexico. .S" Maria, tierracaliente, State of Vera Cruz 



Tropical rain-forest in the Province of Chiapas, S. Me.\ico .... 



Recently thinned part of a forest in the interior of Samoa. Palms 



From the South Mexican rain-forest. Underwood with tree-ferns 



6. Undergrowth in the Soutli Mexican rain-forest 



A forest-clearing at the edge of the tropical rniii-forest on the Gedeh in 



West Java ............ 



Schizolobium excelsum and Euterpe edulis in tropical American raiji-forest, 



Blunienau, Brazil .......... 



A liane in the botanic garden at Peradenyia ...... 



Palm-lianes in the botanic garden at Buitenzorg ...... 



Root-climbing lianes on a tree-stem in the South Mexican rain-forest 



(Province of Chiapas) ......-.- 



Tree-trunk with epiphytes, Blumenau. Brazil ...... 



Parmentiera cereifera, a caulitiorous tree in fruit. Cultivated in Ceylon 

 Cephalostachyum pergracile and Sterculia sp. in the monsoon-forest. Thonze 



Reserve, Tharawadi .......... 



Monsoon-forest, Burma. Bwet Reserve, Tliarawadi ..... 



Savannali landscape in Geiman East Africa ...... 



Pes-capiae formation in West Java ........ 



6. A sea-scape of the m.ingrove of the Seychelles : high tide and low tide 

 Dicksonia antarctica in the temperate rain-forest in Tasmania 

 Subtropical North Mexican lowland rain-forest, in Misantla 

 Florida. Edge of a forest of Qiiercus virens, with festoons of Tillandsia 



usneoides ............ 



Pine-forest at Pnnta Gorda, Florida 



Clearing in a temperate rain-forest of the North Island of New Zealand 



(Waitarerei) ........... 



Glimpse of the Eucalyptus-forest in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales 

 South .-African grass-land. Part of the Buschfcld in the central Transvaal, 



between the Magalies Mountains and the Waterberg .... 

 Savannah with arborescent grass-trees (Xanthorrlioeai on the Sweed River, 



New South Wales ......... 



Maquis near Giens, Departement du Var .... . . 



Sclerophyllous woodland near Cape To« n . 

 Chaparral-formation on Mount Jamalpais, near San Francisco 

 High-forest of the Sierra Nev.ida (California!. Pinus Lambertiana 

 High-forest of the Sierra Nevada (California). Sequoia gigantea 

 Great Carion of the Yellowstone River, Rocky Mountains . 

 View in virgin Atlantic forest, Pennsylvania. Winter 

 Summer-forest in the Southern Alleghany Mountains, North Carolina 

 Natural summer-forest of the Southern Alleghany Mountains, North Carolin 

 Park-like landscape in Saglialin. Edge of the forest .... 



. Park-like landscape from the summer-forest and meadow in S.ighalin . 

 Angelophyllum ursinum and Spiraea sachalinensis under an alder. Saglialin 



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