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Long, Charles R.
1964
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1. Tribulus - abundant on the dry east end but also common on raised Flat areas and on the raised coral beach on the north side of the island.
2. Sesuvium - in depression near center of island partially covered with water; stems very red, a reddish pink flower - also found along the shore in the area of the small boy which dividing the island into halves.
3. Setaria - brown, dry and in generally poor condition - a few green plants found around the periphery of the central, water-filled depression.
4. Lepturus - brown and in poor condition in dry areas. Those plants around central island depression and in well-watered gravel on the outer portion of the island are in bloom. Flattened clumps were very noticeable on the south beach.
5. Boerhaavia - found growing in beach sand and on the interior with Tribulus and Setaria.
6. Eragrostis variabilis - on the interior in flat areas which are well watered.
7. Eragrostis whitneyi - along bare coral gravel and sand strand along the south shore.
8. Scaevola taccada - isolated, small plants on the south shore, used as perches by the noddies, in flower and fruit but planted.
9. Sicvos sp. - on the west part of the island in central area.
10. Erigeron - a few plants on east part of the island along the north shore.
11. Portulaca - on north shore, east part of island in gravel along the beach.
12. Lepidium - conspicuous dominant on the west half of the island, the large stand in fruit.
13. Cruciferae - dried remains of large members of this plant were collected on the west part of the island. E. Kridler (personal communication) stated this species was a conspicuous dominant on the spring visit of the Fish and Game party. Only intact seed pods were found these suggesting a Brassica sp.
14. Casuarina - seedlings planted by the U.S. Coast Guard on the west end of the east portion of Southeast Island were uprooted by E. Kridler. Many of the original plantings had died.