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the bank ; and the “ high elbow ” which occupies the top of 
the sharp bend or L-shaped termination of each lateral. 
There are seven such banks on the Marams area (Fig. l) 
which are of importance (one other which exists (No. 2) has no 
bearing in this connection), 11 separated from one another by salt 
marshes of varying width ; they will be referred to in the 
following account by numbers, the eighth or youngest (on 
which the Watch House stands, Fig. 1, W.H.) being that 
nearest The Headland, and forming a boundary to that end of 
the series of salt marshes. The first or oldest has marshes on 
both sides, but between it and the junction of the pebble beach 
with the mainland, no other laterals occur. Still younger 
hooks are found nearer the Headland, and one of these will be 
dealt with in the sequel. 
Of these seven banks two call for special comment before we 
embark on a generalised description of the flora. The eighth bank- 
bears towards its distal extremity a Coast-guard Watch House, 
and is consequently subject to considerable human influence, 
and perhaps the much more extensive flora which it possesses 
as compared with the others is largely accounted for by this 
factor. The other bank which exhibits special features is the 
fifth in order ; it arises as a branch from the base of number 
six, and is peculiar in that it is so broad and flattened that it 
may be regarded floristically as being devoid of any crest or 
high elbow such as we find in the remaining five. 
The Vegetation Zones of the Hooks. 
Passing from the lower edge of one of these banks on to 
the high elbow, five principal zones can be recognised, which, 
taken in order of their ascent, are : 1. The Suaeda fruticosa 
zone. 2. The Festuca rubra zone. 3. The Statice binervosa 
zone. 4. The Crest or Agrostis maritima zone, and lastly, 
5. The High Elbow. (Fig. 10.) 
(1.) The Suceda Zone. 
The Suaeda zone proper is a dense belt of bushes some two 
feet in height and of varying width, which occupies the lower 
11. Strictly speaking several of these banks are compound in origin, but for 
convenience each complex is treated as a unit. 
