in fairly firm sand in a salt pool off Indian- River Bay, and was screened 

 by wire. Ey May 16 the plants showed definite progress, ha.ving produced 

 two or three new leaves and two new internodes of root stocks. At that 

 time, however, the pool appeared to be drying up. Ihe plot was not seen 

 again until December, at which time no sign of the eelgrass was evident. 



Herring Creek, Berlin, Md . — The eelgrass planted in sandy mud on 

 April 4 had largely disappeared by the middle of May, although a few 

 surviving plants of the narrow-leaved Pacific type looked fairly good. 

 Reports indicate that these died also later in the summer. 



Wachapreagae, Va. — Two plots of eelgrass were set out on the flats 

 east of Paramores Island on April 5. These were not subsequently checked, 

 but reports received do not suggest a successful result. On August 13, 



1935, Hotchkiss collected about six bushels of the Chesapeake Bay plants 

 near Wenona, Somerset County, Md. , and transplanted them on the tidal 

 flats near Wachapreague, Accomac County, Va. Wnen the place was revisited 

 no surviving plants could be found. On October 25, Hotchkiss and Bourn 

 made two plantings of seeds of the west-coast Zostera and also two plant- 

 ings of the rhizomes of the broad-leaved form at what would seem to be 

 favorable places on the mud flats in the vicinity of Wachapreague. One 

 planting was on the south side of Ployds Bay in 6 to 12 inches of water 



at low tide and the other at Cedar Island in about 1 foot of water at 

 low tide. No plants could be found when inspections were made in April 



1936. The Cedar Island plantings were later covered with a thick coating 

 of sand. 



G-reat South Bay, Long Island, N. Y . — Both the pacific broad-leaved 

 eelgrass and the Atlantic eelgrass from Chesapealie Bay were planted in 

 the bay off Jones Beach Bird Sanctuary by Refuge Manager J. P. Herholdt. 

 Th-Q Atlantic form, which had been collected at pungoteague Creek, Harborton, 

 Ya. , apparently failed completely to take hold, as did also two bushels 

 of plants collected at Mecox Bay, L. I., in May. The Pacific form, on 

 the other hand, was making some progress by May 5, although the algae that 

 had collected on the screen over the bed had nearly smothered the plants. 

 The wire was removed, and by June 6 all the plants seemed to be thriving 

 and two had produced flowers and immature fruit. Early in A'ugust, however, 

 this planting was found to have been almost completely wiped out by dis- 

 ease, hot weather, or some other factor, only two tiny spears being left 

 of what had been a thriving growth. Whether this plot matured seeds 

 before being killed is not known. 



Newport, R. I — On April 12, a plot of Pacific eelgrass was planted 

 in Green Bridge Cove, and two smaller plots in Brentons Cove nearby. The 

 Brentons Cove plants showed a little new growth by the first of Ma^'", and 

 those in Green Bridge had produced new leaves 4 to 5 inches long. By June 

 10 the latter plot held fifteen healthy plants, one of them being in 

 flower. Some of the leaves were 30 inches long, and all were absolutely 

 free from blemish. In the interval between the inspection on June 10 and 

 another observation made in Augast, however, every plant was wiped out 

 and nothing but blackened root stocks were left. The two smaller plots 

 had never shown a very promising growth and finally died out altogether. 



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