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the whole South, grows nearly throughout this region, but no far- 

 ther south. The reason for all this is not apparent, but may be 

 connected with geological history in some way.* The scrub is 

 nearly all in one patch, a few miles south of Brooksville, and has 

 not been examined by the writer. The absence of the red oak has 

 been mentioned above, and the species of trees seem to be fewer 

 than in the Middle Florida hammock belt. 



Nearly all the plants seem to be of fairly common and widely 

 distributed species (as in the Tallahassee red hills of northern 

 Florida, t and many other places where short-leaf pines abound), 

 and the most abundant seem to be as follows : 



COMMONEST PLANTS OF HERNANDO HAMMOa^ BELT. 



Pinus palustris 

 Finus Taeda 



Liquidambar Styraciflua 

 Mag-nolia graudiflora 

 Quercus laurifolia 

 Quercus Virgriniana 



Quercus Michauxii 

 Hicoria glabra? 

 Quercus nigra 

 Ulmus alata 

 Tilia pubescens? 

 Celtis occidentalis? 

 Ulmus Floridana 

 (Diospyros Virginiana) 

 Fersea Borbonia 



Quercus Catesbaei 

 Carpinus Caroliniana 

 Cornus florida 

 Ilex opaca 



Osmanthus Americana 

 Batodendron arljoreum 

 Quercus g'eminata 

 Ostrya Virginiana 

 Mag'nolia grlauca 

 Serenoa serrulataj: * 



Gelsemiiun sempervirens 



Vitis rotundifolia 

 Rhus radicans 

 (Rubus trivialis?) 

 Bigrnonia crucigfera 



TIMBER TREES 



Long-leaf pine 

 Short-leaf pine 

 Sweet gum 

 Magnolia 



Live oak 



Hickory 

 Water oak 

 Elm 

 Lin 



Hackberry 

 Elm 



Persimmon * 



Red bay 



SMALL TREES. 



Black-jack oak 

 Ironwood 

 Dogwood 

 Holly 



Sparkleberry 

 Live oak 



Bay 

 Saw-palmetto 



"WOODY VINES. 



Yellow jessamine 

 Muscadine 

 Poison ivy 

 Dewberry 

 Cross-vine 



High pine land, etc. 



Hammocks 



Various situations 



Hammocks 



Hammocks 



Hammocks 



Low hammocks 



Hammocks 



Various situations 



Hammocks 



Hammocks 



Hammocks 



Low hammocks 



Old fields 



Hammocks 



High pine land 

 Low hammocks 

 Hammocks 

 Hammocks 

 Hammocks 

 Sandy hammocks 

 Sandy uplands 

 Hammocks 

 Along streams 

 Hammocks 



Hammocks, etc. 

 Hammocks 

 Low hammocks 

 Old fields, etc. 

 Hammocks 



*The similarity of Hernando County (.which then incUided the present ter- 

 ritory of Citrus and Pasco as well) to some places much farther north was 

 commented on nearly forty years ago by Dr. Eugene A. Smith (Tenth Cen- 

 sus U. S., vol. 6, p. 238. 1884). 



tSee 6th Ann. Rep., p. 277. 



tA form with ascending or erect trunk, sometimes ten feet tall. 



