(Text Page to) (38) Natural vegetation and flora -- Map 1. High-arctic element -- 2. Arctic-alpine element -- 3. Low-arctic element -- 4. Amphi-Atlantic, northern element -- 5. Amphi-Atlantic, southern element -- 6. Amphi-Beringian element -- 7. Arctic element -- 7a. (Mountain avens .) -- 8. Boreal forest element -- 9. Cordilleran element -- 10. Pacific coast element -- 11. Prairie and foothill element -- 12. Southern hardwood forest element -- 13. Northern hardwood forest element -- 14. Atlantic coastal plain element -- 15. Arctic archipelago endemic element -- 16. Eastern arctic endemic element -- 17. Western arctic endemic element -- 18. Species with disjunct ranges. Compiled from information supplied by the National Museum of Canada. (Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.)

Descriptive text on verso of (38) Natural vegetation and flora: In addition to a general map of the natural vegetation of Canada, this plate shows 18 elementary types of plant distribution which illustrates the historical background of some of the principal groups or elements in the flora of Canada...

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Main Authors: Canada. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Nicholson, N. L. (Norman Leon), Comtois, Paul
Format: Text
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Published: Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch 1958
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