Long a C. R. 
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9* 'Bvo Cocos trees are alive. I saw seven Cocos fruits on the beach. 
10. Four Casuarina trees are alive. The one tree on the southwest 
side is new dead. All the trees are used as perches by noddies. 
Fairy Terns, Boobies, and frigates. 
11* Ipomoe a is a conspicuous though perhaps seasonal dominant on the 
interior portion of the island often covering Scaevola bushes and large 
areas of Eragrostis . The fL ewers are blue fading to white. 
12. Solanum nigru m L. - Several plants were found growing in gravel 
jackets of upraised coral rock, north side of island just above the high 
water mark. In flower and fruit, plant small. Dr. Beardsley remarked 
at how some of the commonest insects of the other Leeward islands are 
not present on Lisianski Island. This is also true of the plant life. 
The soils are all sand base with varying amounts of humus under the 
Sc aevola and Eragrostjs cover. The plant associations are not as 
clarly defined as those on Laysan and remind one of the smaller, 
vegetated sand islets of French Frigate Shoals or Pearl and Hermes 
Reef. The inner portion of Lisianski is heavily burrowed and quite 
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reminescent of the burrowed areas of the sand islets although Bragrostia 
is not found on these. I estimate 95 - 9T°/o cover on Lisanski Island. 
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By for the greater part of the island is covered by Scaevola and Bragrostis . 
The other species are "squeezed' 1 into any available niche, fribulus 
and Portulaca are not abundant. Ho Hama is present on the west side 
where the wide sand shelf is missing. 
The following associations were observed: 
1. Boerhaavia - Tyibulus - Eragrostis 
