Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 8The Society, 1886 |
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Adelaide bore Aldinga Bay angular beds Blanchetown Cardita colour compressed concentric convex Corio Bay crenulated deposits depressed depth Dimensions.-Length dorsal Ears elevated elongated enlarged equilateral Eucla feet flowers folds Foraminifera fossil genus geological glacial glauconite halo height Hergott hinge line Hutton imbricating incurved inequilateral Inner margin interspaces iridescent clouds Kangaroo Island lamellæ left valve limestone margin of valves McCoy millimetres Miocene Muddy Creek Murray Cliffs narrow North Adelaide oblique oblong observed obtuse Pecten plant Plate posterior side posterior slope Prof Professor Tate quartzite R. M. Johnston radial ribs riblets ridges right valve River Murray River Murray Cliffs rocks rounded Royal Society sand sandstones scaly Schnapper Point Section sheep Shell slightly South Australia spec specimens striæ striated Table Cape Tasmania teeth Tenison-Woods Tepper Tertiary thickness transverse triangular truncated umbo umbonal valves ventral margin Victoria Vincent Gulf whilst width Zealand
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Page 24 - A Salt-bush. Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania. " All kinds of stock are often largely dependent on it during protracted droughts, and when neither grass nor hay are obtainable I have known the whole bush chopped up and mixed with a little corn, when it proved an excellent fodder for horses. One drawback it has, its stems being very fibrous, and the older portions indigestibly so, it is the principal cause of those bezoars or felted knobs in the manipulus of the sheep, which in very protracted...
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Page 110 - Right valve deeper than the left, moderately convex, polished ; •surface radiated with numerous (60-70) sub-equal, nearly straight, narrow, flatly-rounded ridges, separated by shallow concavities, rather less than the width of the ridges, crossed by distant concentric lines of growth. Ears, with the posterior one a little larger than the anterior ; both slightly obtuseangled, radially ridged, and marked with concentric lines of growth, which rise on the dorsal margin as projecting angular scales...
Page 14 - Remarks on some Indigenous Shrubs of South Australia, Suitable for Cultivation as Fodder.