FOREST DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION. 



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Mexico, skipping the Mississippi Eiver and reappearing in a great 

 forest in Louisiana and Eastern Texas. It was composed of almost 



Fig-. 47. Semi-tropical Forest, Florida Live Oak, Surrounded by Cabbag-e Palmetto, 

 and Hung- With Spanish Moss. U. S. Forest Service. 



pure stands of pine, the long-leaf, Fig. 46, the short-leaf, and the lob- 

 lolly, with cypress in the swamps and bottom lands. In southern 



