In this study we describe the flora (presence/abundance) of a one ha xeric forest located at Osborn Prairie, also known as Sixteenth Section Prairie, Oktibbeha, County, Mississippi.

Covered in a thick cerotegument, this heavily sclerotized mite has the ability to withdraw its legs into its body much like a tortoise - an adaptation that likely aids in the mites' ability to survive the xeric conditions on the sandstone rocks.

However, with the exception of Irenomys, most species recorded in the vicinity of Puerto Ibanez (Kelt, 1994, 1996) correspond to the more xeric Patagonian mammal fauna; exceptions to this include A.

Affinities of Xeric Limestone Prairies to Other Vegetation Types

The first known males of the spider Plectreurys arida Gertsch are described from the xeric shrub habitats and houses of Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Flatwoods, xeric clay hills, dry sandy uplands and sandhills.

The Florida Scrub-jay is found only in the fire-dependent xeric oak communities of Florida.

californicus live in xeric habitats, they may have come to rely on the web to a greater extent than does S.

brunnevs, inhabits xeric meadows at 1150-1550 m elevation in Adams and Valley Counties, and the southern subspecies, S.

The Xeric Garden at UNLY is beautiful and scholarly, representing a wide palette of plants--many of them little known to American horticulture--from deserts around the world.