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there is any large wood which can be 
said to be wholly indigenous. 
With regard to France, G. 
Andersson reports on the devastation 
of forest in the Cevennes, where (he 
states) only box scrub remains \ 
Engler also gives an account of the 
''falsification" of the original character 
of the vegetation of Table Mountain 
above Cape Town, through the in- 
troduction of Mediterranean conifers^ 
Moreover it is well known to what an 
extent the woods have been cut down 
in the United States of America. It 
is worthy of remark that a woodman 
felling a Big Tree stands for the coat 
of arms of one of the States. 
^ Andersson, Gunnar. Skogskofling och skogs- 
odling i Cevennerna. Skogsvbrdsfdreningens Tid- 
skrift. Stockholm, 1903, p. 213 sq. 
2 Engler, A. Uber die Friihlingsflora des 
Tafelberges bei Kapstadt. Notizblatt des Konig- 
lichen Botanischen Gartens. Appendix XI. Berlin, 
1903, S. 23. 
