The autumn and winter flowering plants now prevailed here, such as labiatae, which are generally late at this elevation; and grasses, which, though rare in the damp forest regions, are so common on these slopes that I here gathered twenty-six kinds.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
96-101. The grouping or association of diffrent vegetable species, to which we are accustomed to apply the term 'Floras', do not appear to me, from what I have observed in different portions of the earth's surface, to manifest such a predominance of individual families as to justify us in marking the geographical distinctions between the regions of the Umbellatae, of the Solidaginae, of the labiatae, or the Scitamineae.
"COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1"
Alexander von Humboldt
The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes the Apple, also the true Grasses, and the labiatae, or Mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.
"Wild Apples"
Henry David Thoreau