Note 49 — APPENDIX
Reading edition
Jarava foliis involutis, spica panicul.—Flor. Per. et Chil. t. i. p. 5, icon vi. fig. b. As these pasture-grounds are found at twelve or fourteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, they do not admit of the cultivation and population of the lofty plains of Anahuac or Mexico, which are only six or eight thousand feet above the ocean.