rocality:
Rigili
personnel:
Island.
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 in the same location as
goil samples were obtained.
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
a
in the game
.
algae in pools at the northern tip of the
lagoon and seaward side;
area.
and
Collected
'
island both on the
lagoon side with few scum algae mostly
adhering to dead rock and debris,--seaward side in the coral
gardens contained several species of algae,
Lyngbya,
Laurencia and Dictyota.
including Halimeda,