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DR. O. PAULSEN has published an English edition, revised and corrected by Dr. W. G. Smith, of Edinburgh, of his important memoir on “The Vegetation of the Transcaspian Lowlands.” This memoir forms the first part of the biological section of the botanical results of the second Danish Pamir expedition—the systematic part of the botanical results having been already published as the examination of the various natural orders was completed—and contains 279 pages, with 79 illustrations, and a map of the area studied. After describing the situation and boundary of the region examined, together with the general geological and climatic characters of Transcaspia, the author deals in considerable detail with the vegetation, which he classifies under the headings of five distinct plant-formations. These formations are the riverside thickets (bushland) and four types of desert formation (salt, clay, sand, and stone deserts).
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C., F. The Vegetation of the Transcaspian Lowlands . Nature 90, 711–712 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090711b0
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