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Mt. Fuji. The next chapter will be devoted to the consideration 
of the plant-regions zone by zone. 
IY. ZONATION OF THE PLANT-REGIONS. 
Climbing up through the vegetation of Mt. Fuji, we find 
that there are generally six regions according to altitude. They 
are 1) prairie*, 2) deciduous forest, 3) ever-green Conifers 4) 
JLmaxregion 5) Salix-Alnus - region and 6) alpine stretches. The 
deciduous forest is formed most abundantly on the south, but very 
scantily on the north and is likely to escape one’s attention from a 
distance. The prairie-formation occupies a very spacious area on 
Fig. 10. Prairie-formation on the Gotemba side. (Photographed by the author.). 
the south-east, while on the north-west, it is covered by the lower 
stretches of the Conifer-forest. Excepting these two small dif- 
ferences, the other formations are so equally developed on every 
side that they make nearly complete zones around the cone. The 
* The term ]>rairie is here used in the sense of grass-region. 
