VEGETABLE VAGARIES. 



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view. In the immediate foreground, however, a small space is monopolised by another 

 indigenous Tasmanian fern, apparently a species of Lomaria, notable for its production 

 of diverse barren and fertile stalks, and for the characteristic coppery or even crimson 

 tinge of the young, immature, plants and newly unrolled fronds. 



The snap-sho't photograph selected as the concluding tail-piece to these 

 Chapters represents a clash of incoming and resurgent breakers taken by the author 

 at the "Causeway" on the outer or ocean beach at Bunbury, Western Australia. 



ItliBAK HHEAK BREAK. 



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