

PLANT GEOGRAPHY 449 
mosses and liverworts are more numerous. In general, epiphytic 
vegetation is more luxuriant (Fig. 508) than in the three-storied 
rain forest. Above the two-storied forest there is an elfin wood 

Fig. 504, Sclerophyllous forest in Australia in a region with an annual 
rainfall of thirty to forty inches 
consisting of a single story of twisted trees (Figs. 505, 506). 
Usually the trunks and branches of the trees of the elfin wood 
(Figs. 506, 507), and sometimes those of the two-storied forest 
at higher altitudes, are densely covered with a thick mat of 
mosses and liverworts. The mosses and liverworts not only 
