GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 



ROLAND M. HARPER 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Introduction 75- 83 



Plan of description and sources of information "]"]- 81 



Selection of illustrations, etc. 81- 83 



Regional descriptions 84-153 



1. West coast islands 84- 87 



2. Gulf hammock region (Table i) 87- 93 



3. Middle Florida flatwoods 93- 94 



4. Lime-sink region (Table 2) 95-io,5 



5. Middle Florida hammock belt (Table 3) 104-110 



6. Hernando hammock belt (Table 4) IM-118 



7. Peninsular lake region (Table 5) 119-129 



8. Peninsular flatwoods, western division (Table 6) 130-136 



9. Peninsular flatwoods, eastern division (Table 7) 136-143 



ID. East coast strip (Table 8) I43-I53 



General features 154-287 



Stratigraphy 155" ^57 



Economic geology 157-160 



Topography 160-165 



Hydrography, or drainage 166-170 



Soils 170- J94 



Upland or dry soils 171-175 



Damp soils 175-178 



Wet soils 178-179 



Miscellaneous soils '___' 179-180' 



Mechanical analyses (Tables 9-14) 180-186 



Chemical analyses (Tables 15-18) 186-194 



Climate (Table 19) 194-197 



Vegetation 197-222 



Places with no vegetation 199 



Herbaceous vegetation 199-204 



Shrubby vegetation 204-205 



Small trees, or thickets 205-206 



Tall_ trees, or forests 206-217 



Census of timber trees (Table 20) 218-219 



Utilization of native plants (Table 21) 219-222 



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