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Title: The Andes and the Amazon :;bor across the continent of South America
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Orton, James
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Publisher: New York: Harper
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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social plants that we speak of a forest of oaks, and pines,and birches; but there variety is the law. Individuals of the same species are seldom seen growing together. Every * Some orchid is in flower all the year round. The finest species is theodontoglossiim, having long, chocolate-colored petals, margined with yellow. Such is their number and variety (wrote Humboldt) that the entire life of a painter would be too short to delineate all the magnificent Orchidea3 which adorn the recesses of the deep valleys of the Peruvian Andes. For many curious facts respecting the structure of these flowers, see Darwins Fertilization of Orchids.
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Tropical Trees. 219 tree is surrounded by strangers that seemingly prefer its room to its company; and, such is the struggle for possession of the soil, it is difficult to tell to which stem the different leaves and flowers belong. The peculiar charm of a tropical forest is increased by the mystery of its impenetrable thicket. Within that dense, matted shrubbery, and behind that phalanx of trees, the imagination of the traveler sees all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things. Tropical vegetation is of fresher verdure, more luxuriant .and succulent, and adorned with larger and more shining leaves than the vegetation of the north. The leaves are not shed periodically—a character common, not only to the equator, but also to the whole southern hemisphere.Yet there is a variety of tints, though not autumnal. The leaves put on their best attire while budding instead of falling—passing, as they come to maturity, through different shades of red, brown, and green. The majority of tr

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