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THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 



page 195. To the an- 

 cient writers, by whom 

 the long-stalked Barn- 

 acles, Lepas anitifera, 

 were declared to be the 

 direct progenitors of 

 living Liliputian geese, 

 this bird-plant of 

 North- West Australia 

 would have proved a 

 veritable windfall. 



Two very char- 



Saheornarta sp., CYGNET BAY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



acteristic plant growths dominant in the neighbourhood of the Western Australian 

 Mangrove swamps are photographically represented on this page. The upper of these 

 illustrations depicts a species of the Chsenipodiaceous tribe belonging to the genus 

 Salicornaria. This, and several allied forms, are notably abundant on the salt flats 

 near Carnarvon, at the mouth of the Gascoigne river. The particularly symmetrical 

 growth here selected for illustration was photographed, however, at Cygnet Bay, which 



W. Samllt-Kent, Photo. 



" ROLBY-POLEY " GRASS, Spinifrx loiiyifotiii*, SHARK'S BAY, WKSTKHN AUSTRALIA. 



Kent, Photo. 



