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the status of a major plant cover to one of insignificance. Only a few isoiaced 
clumps remain on the eastern section* which in 1930 was nearly solid grass. It 
is possible that the major vegetation change occurred in late 1930 when George 
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Kaufman reported no live vegetation* only tall clumps of dead buncngrass* afoer 
a severe storm (Munro* 19^5)• As information on plant succession in the Lee¬ 
wards is very limited it is not known whether the floral change observed* iron 
grasses to herbs and vines* is a result of natural succession or caused by some 
edaphic catastrophe. 
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