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Title: Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 7
Identifier: contributionsfro07univ (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory
Subjects: Botany; Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Here is an excellent i)lace to investigate the vegetation of the rolling savannas, or campos, and the groves of Araucaria brasiliana, but the botanist should be careful about the hotel at which he stops, for Campos do Jordao is a resort for Brazilians with tuberculosis and inadver- tently the disease might be contracted. A i)reliminary cross section of the vege- tation between Pindamonhangaba and Campos do Jordao revealed cleared and cultivated land, river marshes and swamps, savannas, savanna forests (ccr- raddo), second growth timber (caapu- eira), rolling campos with scattered palms and trees, rain forest up to 1,500 meters (4,500 feet), upland campos from the upper limit of the rain forest to 5,600 feet alternating with groves of Araucaria brasiliana. Sao Paulo in the heart of the coffee district has some interesting fresh-water marshes (fenland) near its outer limits. It is feasible to visit Alto da Serra and the biological station there, for the rich tropical rain forest can be penetrated by means of trails which have been con- structed to facilitate the study of the vegetable life consisting of palms, tree ferns, orchids, bromeliads, filmy ferns and lianes. The rolling campos country extends into the Brazilian State of Parana. On July 28, 1927, a white frost covered the campos, where herds of cattle were feed- ing. Araucaria forests alternate with the open country, and as one proceeds southward by rail to Vallinhas and Teixeira Soares, the valleys and hill slopes are covered with pure stands of Parana pine (Araucaria hrasiliana). Saw-mills are found at a number of sta- tions as at Pernandes Pinheiro where the araucarian logs are piled high prepara- tory to being sawed. Iraty would be a good place to stop on the main railroad line to study the Parana i)ine forests, for there are two small hotels here, the Hotel Estrella and the Central Hotel, where the botanist might stav while in- vestigatiiig the forest vegetation. The summer-green forest of deciduous and evergreen broad-leaved trees is char- acteristic of the State of St. Catharina 1 i
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