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July 11-17 Enderbury Island - Summary 
(Taken from notes by Peter Marshall). 
The plant covering at Enderbury is much more interesting than 
Eowland and Baker because the size of the island allows several different 
conditions to exist, with the same basic plants compensating to adjust 
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to there different surroundings. A good example of this is plant Eo. 13; 
which grows in each of the three environments (a. guano sand soil near 
camp, b. salt soaked guano of the lagoon, c. barren piles of rock and 
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reef). In the pressing of this sample, I show two of the forms, the 
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normal and the dry. (Left out is the bush growth of the interior.) 
Plant No. 1 - Tournefolia. Two clumps of tress on the island, ony . 
(north of camp) very large and supporting a large colony of greater 
frigates and one near the south east which is much smaller. The growth 
seems to now be checked by the birds, which leads one to believe that 
they grew up to their large size when there were much fewer birds. 
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All the upper branches of these small trees (8-20 feet) are now dead 
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and the only growth occurs at the bottom. 
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Plant No. 2 - Sesuvium. Litter ally covers and blankets the Inner part 
of the island. Small white flowers. 
Plant No. 3* - Leaves in line type succulent. Common along outer 200 feet 
of island. Very adaptive to good and bad conditions. 
