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Antiqua
Antiqua; Spaltensatz.
—Humboldt says
that naturalists already know 56,000
species of cryptogamous and phenero-
gamous
plants, 44,000 insects, 2500
fishes, 700 reptiles, 4000 birds,
and
500 mammiferæ. In Europe alone
there exist nearly 80 mammiferæ, 400
birds, and 30
reptiles. There are un-
der this temperate boreal zone 5 times
as many species of birds as mammife-
ræ;
5 times as many compositæ as
amentaceous and coniferous
plants;
5 times as many leguminous as there
are orchideous and euphorbiaceous.