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being the hillocks of Bog Moss (Sphagnum). This 

 true moor may be comparatively dry or it may be a 

 peat bog. When the soil -has plenty of lime in it and 

 the vegetation is more varied than in a high moor, the 

 term " meadow moor " is used, and as peat disappears 

 this passes into a meadow. 



The subject may be followed up in Schimper's 

 "Plant Geography" (Oxford, 1903); but what we 

 have said may perhaps suffice at present. Our general 

 scheme is the following : 



Heath vegetation on steep hillsides. 



Heath vegetation in forests. 



Heath vegetation on open, undulating expanses ; 



with little peat 

 Heath vegetation on open, undulating expanses ; 



with the beginning of peat 

 Moor vegetation, where there is much peat, and 



little lime the high moor, whether dry or 



boggy 

 Moor vegetation, mixed with other types, where 



there is abundant peat and plenty of lime the 



meadow moor 

 Meadow vegetation, without peat. 



In North Temperate regions there are enormous 

 tracts of country which are covered with Heather and 

 related plants, but show little else. One of these im- 

 mense heaths stretches along the southern shores of 

 the Baltic for hour after hour of railway journey, and 

 there are many small counterparts of this in Britain. 

 The dominant plant is the Common Ling, or Heather 

 (Calluna vulgaris\ and with this go the Heaths, or 

 Bell Heathers (Erica), some short berry-bearing 

 plants, and some small shrubs like Furze, Broom, and 

 Juniper. 



Moorland. 



