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Common and scientific names of plants mentioned 
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Amount of nonvegetated ground and large openings 
as percentages of the total transect lengths... . 35 
Mean amounts of vegetation per quadrat inside 
and outside nutria exclosure 1 near Cheniere-au- 
Teh ot aa hg ce Ee ee Saeed ee ke | BS 
Mean amounts of vegetation per quadrat inside 
and outside nutria exclosure 2 in saltmeadow 
cordgrass - Olney's three-square type (20 samples 
each location) of transect C for 1953. ....++s-e. 37 
Comparison of mean measurement of vegetation 
inside and outside nutria exclosure 3 in reed- 
big cordgrass type (4 samples each location) 
ef GrhnSeet Gis « ws ee wee ee ere ew] | 
Comparison of mean measurements of vegetation 
inside and outside nutria exclosure in reed 
type Of QUARBSEt.C0 fs pe 5 es et wl wt eee Se eS 39 
Average number of nutria diggings per hundred 
Pest on the trandectés + 6 « eee ee te ew wae |S 
Number of inches of nutria activity per hundred 
feet of transect from a 5 percent sample ...... “41 
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