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IN reply to Prof. Cleland's letter, which has been referred to me by the Editor of NATURE, I may say that I am quite cognisant of the use of the popular name spinifex for most of the Australian species of Triodia, and am well aware of their dominance in the more arid regions of the interior. In referring to Spinifex paradoxus, however, I merely directed attention to an extremely interesting example of a xerophytic grass with rigid woody culms and male and female spikelets on different plants. The statement that Spinifex paradoxus is ” one of the dominant species in the Sturt Desert of Australia” was not taken from the book under review, but was gleaned from the papers quoted below.
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Spinifex in Australia. Nature 137, 739 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137739a0
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