CONTENTS 

 FIGURES- -Continued 



12 Saltgrass 36 



13 Red Mangrove showing aerial prop roots 39 



14 Black Mangrove with aerial pneumatophores 40 



15 White Mangrove 41 



16 Sea oxeye mixed with pickleweed 44 



17 Sea oxeye and marah elder 45 



18 Pickleweed 48 



19 Mixed high marsh--sea myrtle growing with black needle rush; 



saltmeadow cordgrass and sea oxeye 49 



20 Mature Lyngby sedge 50 



21 High marsh of maturing tufted hair grass with a scattering 



of gum plant, jaumea, and seaside plantain 51 



22 Seaside arrowgrass plants 52 



23 Pacific cordgrass in flower 54 



24 Natural stand of smooth cordgrass seedlings 57 



25 Typical smooth cordgrass transplant or sprig from the wild or 



from an intertidal nursery 59 



26 Single-culm transplant 62 



27 Ergot on Pacific cordgrass 65 



28 Response of smooth cordgrass to fertilizer 70 



29 Fertilizer placement on smooth cordgrass 70 



30 Sand fence protecting marsh seeding from sandy dredge material. . 72 



31 Hand-planting smooth cordgrass 74 



32 Machine-planting smooth cordgrass with single-row planter .... 74 



33 Smooth cordgrass 8 weeks after planting 81 



34 Smooth cordgrass 5 weeks later 82 



35 Beginning of second growing season 12 months after planting ... 82 



