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Tribulus cistoides - plant lias + 15 stems, 8 to 40 
incites in length, with flowers « many stents are 
associated with Bi 
Stems scad-prostrate in sand se side, young stems very 
red, flowers yellow, 3 petal#, 5 parted style, 1 28 stamens 
1 sain stem, 3 large secondary stems and many young, semi- 
prostrate ones (red), leaves also heavily anthocyanized- 
plant near the heavily stemmed clump but the aspect is 
quite different, petals 1/2 inch long, notched 1/5 the 
length but not broad. 
SC side on sand pile, stems dead, long root, a and b 
sheets, no flowers. Tribulus cistoides 
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B. diffusa - short blooming shoots, aw side. In sand with 
Tribulue and Portulaca, whit# flowers. 
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Algae - SW beach, about 200 feet of shallows, 50 feet of 
sloping beach to coral rubble, about a 7.5 foot rise faros 
beach rock shallows to top of beach, beach litter left by 
high tide. 
Lepturns rgpena - SW beach small clump in floor on beach, 
wet beneath dry' surface, older clumps drier and not in flower, 
Bartnlaca - plant 5 inches high, stems to 8.5 inches, green, 
gravel, atony surface, s. point near Lesser 
Frigate colony, flower; yellow, petals 7, broad 3/4 inches by 
3/2 inch. Widest point, only slightly notched with wide 
lobe*, style six parted ± 70 stamens. 
P. lutea - SE central area, upright to 16 inches, flower; 
o petals, less 1/2 inch. Cleft only slightly, 6 parted 
style, f 22 stamenspressed, live and cytological material. 
Portulaca lutea f - reddish young 
on aid-west area, very dry. 
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Cloud cover 10 percent on the SW side Tabulate cistoldea L 
(see photo) with tap root 24 inches. Long *usi v&per six 
inches exposed was observed. The short stem is 1/2 inch 
long and flattened with many dead stems radiating out from 
the central area - others with a few green leaves at the | 
at the tips, new stems being produced. Pictures of Portulaea 
taken (those plants on coral rooks). 
