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Plate 16.— Classification: system Estuarine, subsystem Intertidal, class Emergent Wetland, subclass Persistent, water 

 REGIME Irregularly Flooded. WATER chemistry Mixohaline, SOIL Organic. The dominant plant is bulrush (Scirpus olneyi). 

 Subordinate species are saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina patens) and saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) which 

 appear as a fringe at the water's edge. (Dorchester County, Maryland; June 1974) 



