Canton Island Plants
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Dr. Katherine Luomala, As
soclate professor of anthro pology at the University c Hawaii, has written an account c the plants of Canton Islanc Phoenix group, recently publishe by B. P. Bishop Museum, Honoluli Dr. Luomala enumerates and give ethnobotanical notes concerning 5 species of flowering plants and on seaweed, which either she had col lected herself during a visit to Can ton or which had been noted in si: papers by four previous observers She noted the manner in whicl the vegetation and associated insec life increases during wet years an< decreases in dry years. Record tabulated for more than ten year show an average rainfall of 29.4 inches a year; but individual year, vary from over 90 to less than Bh.