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.
These are collected by the natives, and are known over most of the continent as nardoo.
They subsisted miserably on the bounty of some natives, and partly by feeding on the seeds of a plant called nardoo.