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Fig. 107. — Salt desert and salt-marsh of a vvarni-teniperate region. A, an area 

 of salt desert near Shithatha, in southern central Iraq. Clumps of the co-domin- 

 ants are up to 2 metres wide and 60 cm. high. Cracking of the surface encrustation 

 is noticeable in slight depressions. The dots at the foot of the distant scarp are 

 grazing Camels. B, saline marshes outside the oasis of Shithatha, Iraq. The 

 vegetation is mostly closed and sedgy-grassy, with some Tamarisks {Tamarix spp.). 



