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riorida the forest is tvoi)ieal. Fig. 47, like that of the West Indies, 

 and in soutliern Texas it partakes of the character of the Mexican 

 forest. 



(3) Between these north and south coniferous belts, lay the great 

 broad-leaf or hardwood forest, Fig. 48, which constituted the greater 



