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“Cue hero is bright blue-green* while £0 meters avny Is on® "with the 
color of birght brick red. The red color is due to . to a gelatinous wster 
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•plant growing in a thick lager all over the botton. " 
**&id not visit the south coast and south eastern peninsula of the island* 
-check "srith Chock, note—neither did Chick and Eaoiltoxn 
4. Fosberg Field notes August 1956 diristmas Island : __ 
Kbtu Stepu - Elsonla* Mecserechnidla,- Soriana* EeliotropiuS* Sidu failax* 
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Lcpturus repens* Portulaca lutoa* Eoo;diaavia* . Eragroctis* Ecdyotis rorsangoffiensis. 
Scaevela frueteacefaS Ration.'of'dried vegetation - fluctuations in growth 
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Four Brothers. 
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Portulaca 
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Lepturus 
description of vegetational 
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• I&oserschridia Suxrain " . 
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• ."2*53t> types of Pocrhavia* or perhaps three ware seen. One has 
hairy leaves with. wavy margins* and dense- heads of flowers.-.'. (Check 
tetrandjea in shade? (sp, repens) or sp. viscose (in gelopagor) . 
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F. E. Fosberg. She other has glabrous leaves* with entire raargins* and 
looser heads. Another* perhaps the sense as the last foras much coarser 
growth and larger rnta* and has white flowers. “ 
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casaa plant 1. fir. and fruit in flower and 
2. nodes with leiues 
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differa - ascending pariculate* dixTro in floves cerees, 
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