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Southampton, “not only fringing the water, but running along 
every dyke, filling every pool and invading the broad borders of 
Spartina TowNSENpD!I (} natural size). 
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marshland,” and its advanced posts stand within half a mile of 
Beaulieu village. In 1895 and 1896, so Cosmo Melvill tells us,* 
there was none of the grass visible on the marshes and mudfiats 
*. |Report Bot. Exch, Club for 1908, 47. } 
