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found repeating themselves time and again in different parts of the 
island, but in almost all the places at which we touched some few 
plants were found which we had not detected elsewhere, so that 
it would require a pretty thorough exploration of all parts to 
secure a complete representation, although the great majority of 
species would be secured by making a collection in the scrub at 
Fic. §. “View in the scrub, showing characteristic formation. 
any one point. The whole scrub vegetation, with the exception 
of that on the south shore, to which allusion was made above, 
consists almost entirely of aoa and small trees six to eight feet 
high. course individual trees grow higher, and some por- 
tions of the scrub may have a greater general average height. 
The tree ae are frequently not over a foot high, and such 
trees look like the results of dwarfing — everything perfect but 
on a small scale 
A striking feature of this scrub flora is the group of cacti which 
