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Plate 24.-Classification: system Estuarine, subsystem Intertidal, class Scrub-Shrub Wetland, subclass Broad-leaved Deciduous, 

 dominance type Ivafrutescens, WATER regime Irregularly Flooded, water chemistry Mixohaline, soil Mineral. Subordinate 

 plants growing beneath the marsh elder are black grass (Juneus gerardii), salt grass (Distichlis spicata), and saltmeadow cord- 

 grass (Spartina patens). This wetland lies toward the landward edge of an irregularly flooded persistent-emergent wetland dominated 

 by saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alternijlora), saltmeadow cordgrass, and salt grass (background). (Washington County, Rhode 

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



