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12. Samolus repens. 



Station. — (1.) H.C. : (a.) In the channels, either actually in the water, 

 or rooting in the moist edges of the banks, associated, with Selliera radicans, 

 and forming with it a dense, overhanging growth ; it is especially luxuriant 

 in the"shade of the bushes of Plagianthus divaricatus. {b.) On the edge of 



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Fig. 6. — Samolus repens. 



«. Stem of var.^s/ricin (?), half natural size. h. Ascending branch in the shade of 



Flcujianihus divaricatus at H.C, half natural size. c. Prostrate branch (N.Br.), 



half natural size. d. Creeping stem from N.Br., half natm-al size, e Creeping 



[^ stem from H.C, half natural size. /. Leaf of a, natural size. g. Leaf of e, 



natural size. h. Leaf of d, natural size. i. Leaf of h, natural size. 



the salt marshes, where it occurs more abundantly than any of the typical 

 halophytes of the meadows which have strayed there. (2.) N.Br. : As at 

 H.C. (3.) Tu. : Absent from all formations. It is noteworthy that it is 

 altogether absent from Tu. and also from the meadows at H.C. and N.Br. 



