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Guettarda speciosa with normal appearing Scaevola sericea.
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normal green color. Ground surveys revealed that
Scaevola sericea was common and normal in ap-
pearance. Many of the Gueftarda specipga appeared
¢q) be in pogrggondition (Bigure A-2)¢ lgsome, all
60 nearly adl@he leaves wee gone fron the termi-
CEM tree. S8Veral trees bad dry aflfhriveled
Fepnds. ang6 had defdrfned bulgessffo 8 ft bew the crgyn with apparently nopmal growth
above the bodges.
80
core
F0Photoer@tths of the affected vegttAtion were
nal l to 12in. of the branches, arog otdter ‘bsaggs- urejefwaynined by Dr. Fosberg,’ and he stated that the
ously
A€arly all OElleaves webktgone, an@fthe bushes
appeared completely dead. More thr SO¥cpRedeg seusurfy is not possible to evaluate the causeof the
ODservations. iVvlOre €x-
¢¢+$rea of Naéhdeveral hundred yards inland from MS&hsive andAetailed botanical and ecological surthé ocean bebrh, there Was a field P= 30 Gueiveys will be necessary, both on the islands that
tbfua, all ofWhich were dedd. Some yOung Pisonia
dhived r ri 4tion and athose that’
fe did not, to
Ends wer “iden which appeared tBebe|in good
gondition.
ature Pisonmgwere seenzwhich were
partially debokated, but thée did not @ppearto be
featly diffOfért from thofefseen on R&hgelap Islet
efthe sout
t corner
ongelap-Atoll. None
of the mistletoe-like clumps described by F
were observed. Several Ochrosta oppositifolid were
seen with nearly complete defoliation, which appeared dead. A small grove of coconut trees near
the center gf
Naen Isle §ontained$ to 5 dead
trees within a radius of =300 ya 1-1
Vo eypordy
decapitated at heights 5 to 12 fta
grived rf wo the
changes seem bear any
tation to fadiout. In partgtular,it shawld be noted
hat these didrvations wet¢ made diving the dry
on.
OTT?
oWe are igdepted to Professor Frank Richardson
of the University of Washington for identifying the
plants, and to Commander W. Lyons, USN, for
hig assistance in taking the photographs.
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