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Plate 7.— Classification: SYSTEM Estuarine, subsystem Subtidal, CLASS Unconsolidated Bottom, subclass Sand, WATER REGIME 

 Subtidal, water chemistry Mixohaline. An irregularly flooded persistent-emergent wetland dominated by saltmarsh cordgrass 

 (Spartina alternijhra) and saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina patens) is shown in the right background (Washington County, Rhode 

 Island; July 1977; Photo by F. C. Golet) 



