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Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.

From Time Magazine Archive

The record is now in many important parts too complete, and the simultaneousness of the entrance of the faunas and floras too certainly established, and moving species from place to place only evades the difficulty.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

The flora of the southwestern interior basin of North America in early late to late Pliocene was intermediate between the previous grassland floras of the middle Pliocene and the savannah flora of upper Pliocene.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

These same students of the progress of plant life on the continent have also made extensive and critical studies of the Cenozoic floras.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

Of what use then were these old floras?

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William