CONTENTS 



Page 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II METHODS 9 



1. Nursery Propagation 9 



2. Planting at Duck, North Carolina 9 



3. Planting at Drum Inlet, North Carolina 14 



III RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 16 



1. Duck Planting 16 



2. Drum Inlet Planting 20 



IV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 40 



LITERATURE CITED 42 



TABLES 



1 Mean number of leaves, mean number of culms, and mean cover 



per 14-meter transect at Duck, 1973 18 



2 Stand count by treatment for certain plots at Duck, 1973 .... 19 



3 Invading flowering plants to the experimental planting at 



Duck, June and September 1974 22 



4 Frequency for 13 plant species at Duck, 1974 23 



5 Mean estimated cover for all plant species at Duck, 1974 .... 24 



6 Mean aboveground biomass for five plant species at 



Duck, 1974 25 



7 Mean number of leaves per transect for four dune grasses 



at Drum Inlet, 1973 28 



8 Mean number of culms per transect for four dune grasses 



at Drum Inlet, 1973 29 



9 Mean cover per transect for four dune grasses at 



Drum Inlet, 1973 30 



10 Frequency for six dune plants at Drum Inlet, 1974 32 



11 Mean estimated cover for all plant species at Driom 



Inlet, 1974 34 



