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The botanical result of exploring the valleys was very poor.
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e2“the flora is very scant owing to the frequency of the fires which have swept across the island”
e6“I explored thoroughly all those valleys which promised any botanical treasures, and I regret to say the result is very poor”
Title
II. Reports of proceedings of the naturalists
Isaac Bayley Balfour; Henry H. Slater; George Gulliver Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1879. doi:10.1098/rstl.1879.0033
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation The flora of Rodriguez Island is very scant because of frequent fires.
- Observation Fully one half of Rodriguez Island is entirely bare of vegetation, apart from a few social weeds.
- Observation Vegetation is found only in the upper regions of some valleys, which the fires passed around.
- Association Dryness of the soil precludes any luxuriance of the few plants in the valleys.