Locality:
Rigili Island.
Personnel:
Date:
Same.
August 7,
Weather:
1964.
Fair.
Water conditions:
Fair.
Palumbo & Billings collected land plants in the Pisonia
grove at the north end of the island
soil samples were obtained.
in the same
location as
Land plants generally in good
condition and growth luxurious.
Exceptions were chloratic
Messerschmidia plants at the northern tip next to shore,
badly chewed up Guettarda plants in the same area.
and
Collected
algae in pools at the northern tip of the island both on the
lagoon and seaward side;
lagoon side with few scum algae most
adhering to dead rock and debris,~-seaward side in the coral
gardens contained several species of algae,
Lyngbya,
Laurencia and Dictyota.
including Halimed.