Howland Island - Summary (taken from notes by Peter Marshall) Plant No. 1 - Succulent type plant. Note leaves are orientated circularly about stem. Upper branches re-brown. Pepper-fine black seeds. Wide spread over island. Plant No. 2 - Crawling plant (Boerhavia ?) - small white flowers, all over island. Plant No. 3 - Different succulent plant. Differs from No. 1 by leaves which all point the same direction, and the upper stem which is white. Grows in bunches. Lower stem black. Not as common as No. 1. Plant No. 4. - Hibiscus type tree. 10 feet high, 2 left in depression on middle of Island. Evidence of many more at one time. Plant No. 5 - Sticker weed (Tribulus ?). Wide spread on island. Crawling plant. Plant No. 6 - Tree - one tree at corner of Itascatown. Plant No. 7 - Wide blade grass. Two feet high not common. Plant No. 8 - narrow - blade grass. Very common.