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Some of these plants are extremely thorny and form 
ig) P' 
ee Asiroglus, etesirte wy oches Popilionaceae may be 
ndn 
one 
of them above an inch or twoin noah These plants are mostly 
more or less densely gray-hairy. Other species of Adesmia are 
clover. These contribute a large part of the food of the grazing 
a ooking over the level plains, S great 
areas resembling a grassy lawn, thickly dotted with dandelion- 
e ers, oftener white ellow. pon investigation, 
we fin a is not ral dense ol i 
plants, Hypochaeris, Werneria, and s Perezia. The more or 
less upright radical leaves are usually spine-tipped, so that walk- 
a dens' 
growth of aquatic and semi-aquatic grasses or grass-like plants, 
which constitute the food that they are seeking. 
The table-lands are beset with shallow lakes, some of them of 
great size, where water-fowl of many species and genera occuri 
great flocks ny of these lakes there exists a dense growth 
of Potamogetons, My: llums and similar plants po: 
which sheltered Moses. From these the boatmen construct the 
