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n. - Small genus of evergreen arctic and alpine shrubs.

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  • It is characterized by diminutive hardy vegetation such as low-growing willow Salix arctica and dwarf birch Betula glandulosa, heath Cassiope tetragona, mountain avens Dryas...
  • Phyllodoce and Psamathe, and all the rest of the pretty darlings who swim round their Queen Amphitrite, and her car of cameo shell.
  • They were all named after the Nereids, the sea-fairies who took care of them, Eunice and Polynoe, Phyllodoce and Psamathe, and all the rest of the pretty darlings who...
  • A vertically stratified complex of ecosystems characterize this ecoregion: low-elevation forests of interior western red cedar (Thuja plicata) and western hemlock (Tsuga...
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