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(4) When do the woody plants (shrubs and trees) begin to sprout 

 and when do the herbaceous plants make their first appearance ? 



(5) When do deciduous woody plants begin to shed their leaves ? 

 During what period are they without leaves ? 



(6) How long does the ripening of the fruits last, and how long 

 do they remain on the plant after the ripening ? 



(7) Do all the branches of the woody plants bear flowers at the 

 same time ? Is there any law in the seeming irregularity. 



(8) Which plants grow only in one kind of soil ? Which prefer 

 one kind to another one ? And which are indifferent to any kind of 

 soil? 



(9) Which plants grow near the sea — 



(a) on the sandy sea-shore ? 



(b) on rocky ground ? 



(c) in salt-water creeks and backwaters, which are subject 



to the tides and action of salt water ? 



(d) in salt swamps ? 



(e) in the forests near the coast and on the banks of tidal 



rivers, still affected by the salt water ? 

 (/) along the banks of creeks in alluvial soil, which is not 

 directly influenced by the salt water, being above high- 

 water mark ? 



(10) Which plants form the dune forests ? 



(11) Which plants grow on the banks of rivers, nalas, water-courses, 

 and which in river beds ? Here it is essential to give the physical 

 characters of the bed, whether it is rocky, sandy, or muddy. 



(12) Which are the plants of the evergreen forests ? 



(a) Immediately covering the soil there are seedlings mixed 



with shrubs, undershrubs, and. herbaceous species. 



(b) In the next zone there are small or medium-sized ever- 



green trees 50-75 feet high. 



(c) Then there follow great evergreen trees mixed sometimes 



with deciduous trees, often 150 feet above the ground. 



(d) Climbing and epiphytic plants. 1 



(13) Which plants grow in the deciduous forests 9 ? 



i- Of. W. A. Talbot, " The distribution of the Forest Flora of the Bombay Presidency and 

 Sind," in the "Indian Forester," Vol. XXXII., No. 2, p. 56. 

 3 Of. W. A. Talbot, 1. c. No. 3. p. 126, 131, 133. 



