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.

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