. The naturalist in Australia. Natural history. 280 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. page 195. To the an- cient writers, by whom the long-stalked Barn- acles, Lepas anitifera, were declared to be the direct progenitors of living Liliputian geese, this bird-plant of North-West Austraha would have proved a veritable windfall. Two very char- acteristic plant growths dominant in the neighbourhood of the Western Australian Mangrove swamps are photographically represented on this page. The uj^per of these illustrations depicts a species of the Chfenipodiaceous tribe belonging to the genus Salicornaria.
. The naturalist in Australia. Natural history. 280 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. page 195. To the an- cient writers, by whom the long-stalked Barn- acles, Lepas anitifera, were declared to be the direct progenitors of living Liliputian geese, this bird-plant of North-West Austraha would have proved a veritable windfall. Two very char- acteristic plant growths dominant in the neighbourhood of the Western Australian Mangrove swamps are photographically represented on this page. The uj^per of these illustrations depicts a species of the Chfenipodiaceous 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. Sclicornaria sp.^ CYGXET BAY, "western axtstralia. TT 'iaiille-Eent, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kent, W. Saville (William Saville), d. 1908. London, Chapman & Hall
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