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WORLD
1949 "ORIGINAL NATURAL VEGETATION'
in color
1:82,500,000 (equator)
LEGEND
Low Latitude Forests
1. Tropical rainforest
2. Lighter tropical forest
(semideciduous)
3. Scrub and thorn forest
Middle Latitude Forests
4. Mediterranean scrub forest
5. Broadleaf and mixed broadleafconiferous
forest
6. Coniferous forest
Grasslands
7. Savanna
8. Prairie
9. Steppe (tropical and middle
latitude)
Deserts
10. Desert shrub and desert waste
11. Tundra
12. Ice caps
13. Undifferentiated highland
FINCH, VERNOR C. and GLENN T. TREWARTHA
1949 Elements of Geography. 3rd edition. New York, McGraw-
Hill Book Co., Inc., in back.
1949 "NATURAL VEGETATION"
in color 1:75,000,000
LEGEND
1. Broadleaf evergreen trees
2. Broadleaf evergreen, shrubform, minimum height 3 feet
3. Broadleaf evergreen, shrubform, minimum height 3 feet, growth singly or
in groups or patches
4. Broadleaf evergreen, dwarf shrubform, maximum height 3 feet, plants sufficiently
far apart that they frequently do not touch
5. Breadleaf deciduous trees
6. Broadleaf deciduous trees, plants sufficiently far apart that they frequently
do not touch
7. Broadleaf deciduous, shrubform, minimum height 3 feet
8. Broadleaf deciduous, shrubform, minimum height 3 feet, plants sufficiently
far apart that they frequently do not touch
9. Broadleaf deciduous shrubform, minimum height 3 feet, growth singly or
in groups or patches
10. Broadleaf deciduous, dwarf shrubform, maximum height 3 feet, growth
singly or in groups or patches
11. Broadleaf deciduous, shrubform, minimum height 3 feet, grass and other
herbaceous plants
12. Broadleaf deciduous trees, grass and other herbaceous plants
13. Broadleaf deciduous trees, broadleaf evergreen, shrubform, minimum height
3 feet
14. Needleleaf evergreen trees
15. Needleleaf evergreen trees, growth singly or in groups or patches
16. Grass and other herbaceous plants
17. Grass and other herbaceous plants, growth singly or in groups or patches
18. Grass and other herbaceous plants, broadleaf evergreen trees, growth singly
or in groups or patches
19. Grass and other herbaceous plants, broadleaf deciduous trees
20. Grass and other herbaceous plants, broadleaf deciduous trees, growth singly
or in groups or patches
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