With reference to altitude, societies might be classified as lowland (which are chiefly wet-region), intermediate (chiefly mid-region), subalpine or mid-mountain (which are chiefly boreal), alpine or high-mountain.
The above classifications have reference chiefly to great geographical floras or societies. But there are societies within societies. There are small societies coming within the experience of every person who has ever seen plants growing in natural conditions. There are roadside, fence-row, lawn, thicket, pasture, dune, woods, cliff, barn-yard societies. Every different place has its characteristic vegetation. Note the smaller societies in Figs. 8 and 9. In the former is a water-lily society and a cat-tail society. In the latter there are grass and bush and woods societies.
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Fig. 8.—A Wet-region Society.
Some Details of Plant Societies.—Societies may be composed of scattered and intermingled plants, or of dense clumps or groups of plants. Dense clumps or groups are usually made up of one kind of plant, and they are then
