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Did not have WOW8s description on island bu^in reading it later it sounded OK. 
Ne'd to check his map to get better perspective of island. 
The surface of the souhhern half (tail) of the island is very different from ^ 
either SE or Humphrey, consisting of coral "rubble" that is very reminiscent of walkin 
over clinkers. 
His description of vegetation seems pretty applicable-to date. The several 
T ournefortia b ushes which he mentions as "stunted a*d nearly dead‘'seen to be 
doing well and there are at le-,st four clumps of Scaevola which are also thriving. 
Sicvos was less dominant in August than described on his March trip and Tribulus 
was more important. In fact Tribulus was very robust on all the islands I visited, j 
All plant species seemed vigorous except that the Lepidium was fruiting. j 
T n the center of the main part of the island 3 combination of Sicvos , Tribulus j 
golanpm and sometimes Boerhavia formed a dense maj> that made walking difficult and | 
,, due to the hidden shearwater burrows* 
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