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6. Mixed forests. 



a. Alluvial mixed forests, (on alluvium). 



an. Lower mixed forests. 

 bb. Savannah forests. 

 CO. Beach jungle. 



b. Upper mixed forests, or teak forests. (On permeable sandstones and mota* 



morphio rocks). 



aa. Moisterteak forests. 

 bh. Drier teak forests. 



7. Dry forests (chiefly on calcareous substrata). 



a. Mixed dry forests. 



b. Sha forests. 



c. Hill dry forests. 



B. Savannahs and low natural vegetation. 

 AA. Land vegetation. 



8. Bamboo jungles. 



9. Savannahs. 



10. Natural pastures. 



a. Long-grassed or jungle pastures. 



b. Short-grassed or lowland pastures. 



c. Hill pastures (not represented in Pegu). 

 IL Riparian vegetation. 



a. Vegetation of rivers, &c., with sandy or clayey beds (on alluvial formations). 

 6. Vegetation of rivers, choungs, &c., with rocky beds (chiefly on older forma- 

 tions). 



BB. Vegetation of swamps and waters. 



12. Sweet water vegetation. 



a. Vegetation of swamps. 



b. Vegetation of lakes and other stagnant waters. 



c. Vegetation of running waters, such as rivers, &o. 



13. Saltwater vegetation. 



a. Vegetation of tidal swamps, salt lakes, &c. 



b. Vegetation of the sea. 



n. VEGETATION OF CULTIVATED OR LATELY CULTIVATED LANDS 



1. Vegetation of agrarian lands. 



a. Lower agrarian lands, as rice fields, &c., turning after harvest usually into 



pastures. 



b. Upper cultivated lands or toungyas, turning after desertion into poon- 



zohs and jungles. 



2. Village vegetation. 



a. Native gardens, waste places, &o. 



b. Village vegetation itself. 



3. Naturalized plants. 



I. ORIGINAL VEGETATION. 

 A. Forests. 



Instead of giving a dry resum^, where and under what conditions forests are found in 

 Pegu, I will introduce here a few passages from the lecture,* which Dr. F. v. Mueller 

 in Melbourne delivered to the colonists of Australia, with regard to Australian forests, their 

 functions in nature and their use to man. 



" How forests beneficially afi'ect a clime, how they supply equable humidity, how they 

 afl'ord extensive shelter, create springs, and control the flow of rivers : all this the teachings 

 of science, the records of history, and, more forcibly still, the sufi'eriiigs or even ruin of 

 numerous and vast communities, have demonstrated in sad experiences, not only in times 

 long past, but tven in very recent periods. In what manner the forests arrest passing 

 miasmata, cr set a limit to the spreading of rust-spores from luiued cornfields ; in what man- 



Baron F. v. Mueller, Forest culture in its relation to industrial pursuits. 



