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English: Euphorbias in Taru Desert

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Title: A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott), 1862-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London A.D. Innes & Co.
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Field Museum's Africa Council

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ssiblein so poor a country). Amongst these one findscurious trees of Euphorbia. The grasses andsedges in this part grow in little tufts at somedistance from one another, leaving the generaltint of the landscape that of the soil itself. Nosward or turf is formed, and except immediatelyafter the rains, all these grasses are dead, dry,and withered up. Most of the plants are either thorny or fleshy,as is usual in all desert countries. The reason ofthis is not, I think, because there are antelopesand giraffes which must be kept at bay, althoughthe foliage is undoubtedly protected by its thorns ;it is, more probably, a result of the intense heatof the sun which by transpiration (or evaporation)makes the walls of the cells very thick and hard,and thereby produces a cure for the evil which ititself brings about. A thorn is, of course, a hair,leaf, or branch, which has become thickened inthis way. Through this wilderness runs with almost painfuland lioman straightness of aim the excellent road
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EH R 03 H A ffl PhO M Pht> 00 # MOMBASA TO KIKUYU. 1) decorated by mile-posts and sign-boards, that hasbeen recently finished to Kibwezi by Mr. GeorgeWilson. Game is abundant everywhere, a kind of smallbustard and guinea-fowl being very common.

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