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a. plant with upright stems grey-brown in color. 
b. cate main stem - many secondary stems prostrate to semi-erect 
and reddish in color. 
Bed-footed Booby in nest of Tribulus stems, central area. 
Cordis . 
Grove*""SI of light. 
Two Portulaea types: a, tall, b. prostrate - growing side 
on exposed bedrock flat SB of A.E. light. 
As in 28 but closer showing 2 forms together. 
Taken from bare area SE of light and in front of frigate roost 
looking east — Digetarla @nd Tribulus. 
Side 
As in 50 but looking SE toward the Sooty Tern colony, _ _ 
As in JO but looking S to south end df island (Compare 30—32 with 
2x2*s taken on June-July AT?). 
it? side about 300 yds. from A.E. daylight - looking south)., mounded 
area to foreground - Mgitarlft and Tribulus cover. 
| beach and exposed coral rocks - ffeffi 
and Tribulus cover. 
D. Merrill, technical assistant and dead Lesser Frigates, SW side. 
A* Anderson, technical assistant and dead Lesser Frigates, SW side. 
Tribulus, SW side showing elevated bud clusters, top root exposed, 
Ae" In 5*. plant neax*by, located on the edge of a sand mound left from 
digging cistern, root exposed. 
Uprooted Tribulus as in 5. to show root system (Coll Ho 
B» EackmanT* side and friend. 
D. Hackman, SW side and friend. 
B. Hackman and P. Sibley trading bands. 
Woodwardtechnical assistant and botonist. 
Sibley approaching Blue-faced Booby offspring, note so: 
Sibley bands Blue-faced Booby young; note deft fingers 
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