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WORLD
1958 "TYPES OF NATURAL VEGETATION"
in color
1.65,000,000 (equatorial)
1. Mountain vegetation
LEGEND
2. Tundra (moss and lichen)
3. Boreal forest ("Taiga")
4. Conifer forest (pine, spruce and larch)
5. Mixed forest, mid-latitudes (broadleaf and conifer)
6. Broadleaf forest (deciduous)
7. Mediterranean scrub (citrus, olive, agave, etc.)
8. Prairie (long grass)
9. Steppe (short grass)
10. Savannah (grass and scrub)
11. Tropical rain forest ("Selva")
12. Monsoon forest (moist, deciduous)
13. Dry tropical forest (semi-deciduous)
14. Sub-tropical forest (dry and wet hardleaf evergreen)
15. Dry tropical scrub & thorn forest
16. Desert vegetation (xerophytic shrub, grass and cactus)
17. Natural type uncertain
18. Desert (no vegetation)
a. sand
b. stone
c. salt
19. Mangroves
20. Swamps
BARTHOLOMEW, JOHN (ed.)
1958 The Times atlas of the world. Mid-century edition. London,
The Times Publishing Co., Ltd., vol. 1, The world, Australia and
East Asia, pi. 4.
1958 "COASTAL VEGETATION (OF THE WORLD)"
in color 1:50,000,000
LEGEND
A. Desert
1. Atacaman ("barren" desert)
2. Patagonian (cold desert)
3. Sonoran (subtropical desert)
B. Tundra
4. Aleutian (tundra and polar barrens)
C. Grassland
5. Tripolian (short grass, desert grass)
6. Argentinean (prairie)
7. Visayan (tropic grassland: shown locally only)
D. Evergreen shrubland
8. Mediterranean (sclerophyll woodland and scrub)
E. Temperate forest
9. Tasman (subantarctic forest)
10. Alaskan (taiga forest)
11. Oregonian (conifer forest)
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