The " nardoo " seed, on which the aborigines sometimes contrived to exist, is a creeping plant, growing plentifully in swamps and shallow pools, and belongs to the natural order of Marsileaceae.
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These are collected by the natives, and are known over most of the continent as nardoo.
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They subsisted miserably on the bounty of some natives, and partly by feeding on the seeds of a plant called nardoo.