The herbaceous species are the same as those on the south except that 
Tribulus cistoides and Cynodon dactylon are also present on the north. 
Atriplex inuelleri was found only in a single locality at the vest end 
of the airstrip. 
Cultivated plants around the Coast Guard quarters include Cocos 
nucifera, Casuarina equisetifolia. Ficus sp., Coccoloba uvifera, and 
Plumeria obtusa . 
Of the five species noted by Christophersen and Cauxn ( 1931 ) for 
Tern Island all but Chenopodium oahuense were collected in 1961 . The 
four species named by Svihla (1957) were still present. Fourteen addi¬ 
tional species of veeds and cultivated plants are reported here for the 
first time. The flora now contains 22 species of vascular plants. 
While it is impossible to determine the modes of introduction of 
the weedy species, it seems likely that the seeds of some of these came 
to the island in the soil which was reportedly brought there from Hono¬ 
lulu. (Svihla, 1957). Honolulu was probably the place from which the 
cultivated plants were obtained. Other weedy species may have reached 
Tern Island accidentally via construction equipment, aircraft, or per¬ 
sonnel. One cannot completely discount the possibility of "natural" 
dispersal by wind, birds, or ocean currents. However, most of the weedy 
species were present in the main Hawaiian Islands for many years before 
1923, but the species were not found on French Frigate Shoal then. Thus 
the weeds appeared there only after man began to make frequent visits. 
The specimens cited below are deposited in the herbarium of the 
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17, Hawaii. The initials "CHL" 
identify the author's collections made on September 2 , 1961 . Hie init¬ 
ials "HIR" indicate that the species was collected by H. Ivan Rainwater 
in October, 1953; "AS" indicates the species was collected by Arthur 
Svihla in February, 1956 . The collections of Rainwater and Svihla were 
not numbered. Hew records are indicated by *. 
• ■; GRAMIHEAE . 
*Cenchrus echinatus L. CHL l66l. ... , 
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* Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. CHL 1673 . 
*Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. CHL 1662, AS. 
Lepturus repens (Forst.) R. Br. var repens . CHL 1668, l6jk, HIR, AS. 
*Setaria verticillata (L.) Beauv. CHL 1669 , I 67 O, HIR, AS. 
PALMAS 
Cocos nucifera L. (Specimens not collected).. . 
