Boerb ' ivia oiffusa was listed as present, but not abundant, and 
Tribulus cistoides as present. A few plants of Sleeps, h^spldu s 
were found. Achvrantb.es splendens is not reported, nor is Scaevol a. 
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One seed each of Mucuna vigantea and M. urens, were found on the 
beaches, in o 1926 paper^by S. H. Bryan mentions two grasses, 
snvium. Tribulus . and three herbs; this data is probably from 
the Manager reports. Galtsoff (1933) identified two species of 
algae from the lagoon, Halimeda and Cpdium. The latter is fre¬ 
quently used as food by sea turtles. This paper also mentions that 
Casviarina and Cocos were planted on Southeast Island in 1928 and 
1929, but that the latter were dead or dying by 1930* ^h® &est 
report of the vegetation of Pearl and Hermes was in 1961 when the 
Hawaiian Pish and Game Commission reported the introduction of 
Setaria verticillata on Southeast Island. 
In 1963 the Survey recorded 17 species from Southeast Island. 
Both Tribulus and Boerhavia grew widely scattered over most of the 
island, and Solanum nelsoni occurred in scattered clumps, while 
Solanum nigrum grew only locally among the bunchgrass on the eastern 
portion. Small clumps of Slc.vos hispldus were widespread, fre¬ 
quently in association with bunchgrass* *£sca®h@®>a 
Trr*.—prio&rily around tb.© ponds o "f th.6 s&stom portion 
and along the lagoon side of the western portion at the edge of the 
reef rock. Coronopus dldvmus was common west of the ponds, and on 
the western portion, rortulaca lutea grew among the bunchgrass 
west of the ponds, and on the western portion, and Sosuvium. 
p^rjtnlacastrum was abundant around the ponds and on the large reef 
