280 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 
page 195. To the an- 
cient writers, by whom 
the long-stalked Barn- 
acles, Lepas anitifera, 
were declared tobe the 
direct progenitors of 
living Liliputian geese, 
this bird-plant of 
North-West Australia 
would have proved a 
veritable windfall. 
W. Baville-Kent, Photo, Two very char- 
Salicornaria sp.. CYGNET RAY, 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 Chzenipodiaceous 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. Saville-Kent, Photo. 
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“ ROLBY-POLEY ” GRASS, Spinifex longifolius, SHARK’S BAY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
