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.