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Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

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A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.

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The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

More than half of the flora is unknown elsewhere.

The great primary divisions of the earths flora present themselves at a glance.

The specter shook its head and rose, moving away without disturbing the flora on the jungle floor.

The flora is beautiful and varied.

Rose Tisdale first sighted the blue car circling the block and called Flora Watkins.

This was unusual, as Bird Song's matron had pestered him about the details of the emerging flora since he had arrived at the inn the prior week.

Ferns are prominent among the flora, about one-third of which consists of endemic species.

She focused her attention on the flora.

At Bajo de Velis, in San Luis, the plants belong to the " Glossopteris flora," which is so widely spread in South Africa, India and Australia, and the beds are correlated with the Karharbari series of India (Permian or Permo-Carboniferous).

We're infusing different charges on different forms of flora.

The Pliocene flora found refuges in favored localities from which at its close the lowlands were restocked while the arctic plants were left behind on the mountains.

Katie frowned.  In the course of a day, Gabe had gone from emotional to unaffected when discussing Death.  He was distracted, and she felt like she was talking to someone completely different.  Blaming herself for taking his mind off of their survival, she fell silent and followed him.   Briars and branches caught her pant legs, and she found herself slowing to push more and more of the jungle's flora out of the way.  Gabe, too, began to struggle with the bramble, and she noticed the jungle no longer laid their path before him.  Instead of clearing away to allow them passage, it stayed where it was, obstructing them.

The mountains of the north-east, on the contrary, are clothed to their summits with a rich and varied flora.

Physical surroundings rather than latitude determine the character of the flora.

No speculation of hypothesis has been propounded to account satisfactorily for the origin of the Australian flora.

The glacial period effected in Europe a wholesale extermination of temperate types accompanied by a southern extension of the arctic flora.

He further found that there was an element which he termed boreal in a more intense degree, which amounted to about a fifteenth of the whole flora.

Even so small an area as that of Britain illustrates what has already been pointed out, that the species of a flora change both with latitude and altitude.

The British Phanerogamic flora, it may be remarked, does not contain a single endemic species, and 38% of the total number are common to the three northern continents.

The Arctic-Alpine sub-region consists of races of plants belonging originally to the general flora, and recruited by subsequent additrons, which have been specialized in low stature and great capacity of endurance to survive long dormant periods, sometimes even unbroken in successive years by the transitory activity of the brief summer.

The Atlantic flora has also numerous oaks and maples, signalized by their autumnal coloration.

There is an interestini connection with Europe through the so-called Iberian flora.

Assuming that in its circumpolar origin the North Temperate flora was fairly homogeneous, it would meet in its centrifugal extension with a wide range of local conditions; these would favor the preservation of numerous species in some genera, their greater or less elimination in others.

Taking the whole arctic flora at 762 species, Hooker found that 616 occurred in arctic Europe, and of these 586 are Scandinavian.

The arctic flora contains no genus that is peculiar to it, and only some fifty species that are so.

Christ has objected to terming the arctic flora Scandinavian, but the name implies nothing more than that Scandinavia has been its chief centre of preservation.

It took place southwards, for the arctic flora is remarkably uniform, and, as Chodat points out, it shows no evidence of having been recruited from the several mountain floras.

That the arctic flora was driven south into Central Europe cannot be contested in the face of the evidence collected by Nathorst from deposits connected with the boulderclay.

At the close of the glacial epoch the north Asiatic flora spread westwards into Europe and intermingled with the surviving vegetation.

Some species, such as Anemone alpine, which are wanting in the Arctic flora of the Old World, he thinks must have reached Europe by way of Greenland from north-east America.

The former support a copious herbaceous flora, the characteristics of which in the Old and New Worlds have been already briefly summarized.

These were abundant in Tertiary Europe, as they are now in Japan, and represent perhaps a cooler element in the flora than that indicated above.

Its extreme richness in number of species (it comprises six-sevenths of the European flora) and the extremely restricted areas of many of them point to a great antiquity.

Extensions of the flora occur southwards of the high mountains of tropical Africa; A denocaf pus, a characteristic Mediterranean genus, has been found on Kilimanjaro and 2000 m.

The Mediterranean, however, has apparently been a barrier to the southward passage of the arcto-alpine flora which is totally wanting on the Atlas.

Shortly afterwards the collections of Prejewalsky confirmed it for the flora.

We may therefore regard the Himalayan flora as a westward extension of the Chinese rather than the latter as a development of the former.

Otherwise the Californian flora is entirely deficient in the characteristic features of that of eastern North America.

It is remarkable that the characteristic features of the Miocene flora, which in other partm of the world have spread and developed southwards, are conspicususly absent from the African tropical flora.

Apart from the occurrence of Cycas, the Asiatic character of the Polynesian flora is illustrated by the distribution of Meliaceae.

The flora of the Hawaiian Islands has complicated relations.

The resemblances consist, in fact, not so much in the existence of one general facies running through the regions, as is the case with the northern flora, but in the presence of peculiar types, such ai those belonging to the families Restiaceae, Proteaceae, Ericaceae Mutisiaceac and Rutaceae.

The South African sub-region has a flora richer perhaps in number of species than any other; and these are often extremely local ant restricted in area.

This flora extends from Ireland to the Canaries and reappears on the highlands of Angola.

On the eastern side the southern flora finds representatives in Abyssinia, including Protea, and on the mountains of equatorial Africa, Calodendron capense occurring on Kilimanjaro.

In Lower Eocene times its flora appears to have been distinctly related to the existing one.

The Australian flora has extensions at high levels in the tropics; such exists on Kinabalu in Borneo under the equator.

While the flora of New Caledonia is rich in species (3000), that of New Zealand is poor (1400).

While so many conspicuous Australian elements are wanting in New Zealand, one-eighth of its flora belongs to South American genera.

In the New World, as already explained, the path of communication between the northerri and southern hemispheres has always been more or less open, and the temperate flora of southern America does not exhibit the isolation characteristic of the southern region of the Old World.