12. BELLAIR SAND REGION. 



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(A grass) 



(Partridge pea) 

 Dog-fennel 



+ Laciniaria elegans 



Rhexia Mariana 



— Pluchea bifrons 



— Acanthospermum 



australe (X) 



— Helenium tenuifolium (X) Bitter-weed 



— Eriogonum tomentosum 

 + + Juncus abortivus 



Aristida ^piciformis 

 + Euphorbia cordifolia 



+ RuelHa humilis 



-t" Chamaecrista nictitans 



— Eupatorium 



capillifolium (X?) 

 -r Laciniaria gracilis 



Galactia regularis 

 Eupatoriurm album 

 Xyris sp. 

 Verbena carnea 

 Asclepias tuberosa 



— Pontederia cordata 



— Mesosphaerum radiatum 

 + C5''perus speciosns? 



Lachnocaulon sp. 

 + Indigofera Caroliniana 



+ Pctalostemon albidii,s 



+ + Psilocarya corymibiformis (A sedge) 



+ + Eleocharis acicularis? (A sedge) 



Juncus scirpoides compositus 

 + Ludwigiantha arcuata 



(A sedge) 



Ricber uplands 

 Around ponds 

 Around ponds 



Along railroads, etc. 

 Roads and clearings 

 Uplands 

 Pond margins 

 Low pine land 

 .Along railroads 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 



Low grounds 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Around ponds 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Around ponds 

 Near swamps 

 Pond margins 

 Pond margins 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Pond margins 

 Pond margins 

 Pond margins 

 Pond margins 



(and about 125 others seen less than 4 times). 



The following plants which are common either in near-by regions or 

 in regions with similar soil are rare or absent here: Finns serotina, P. echiiiata 

 (the common short-leaf pine of the Tallahassee red hills), Salix (wi'.low), 

 Carpinus (ironwood), Fagus (beech), Ostrya, Quercus Michauxii, Q. falcata 

 (red oak), Q. Marylandica (round-leaf black-jack oak), Ulinus (elms), Mag- 

 nolia grandiflora, Liriodendron (poplar), .liahs ( cral)-apple), Crataegus (haws), 

 Fruniis (plums and cherries), Ilex opaca (holly), Cornus florida (dogwood), 

 Fersea (red bays), Fraxinus (ashes), Cliftonia (tyty), Serenoa (saw-palmetto), 

 Ilex glabra (gallberry), Eriogonum, Fitcheria, and Helenium tenuifolium 

 (bitterweed). 



Some of these prefer richer and some wetter soils than are prevalent here; 

 but the scarcity of Eriogonum and Fitcheria, which abound in similar soils 

 in the same latitude (in the West Florida lake region, for instance), is hard 

 to explain. Neither is there any apparent reason for the scarcity of bitterweed, 

 which is too common in most other parts of northern Florida. Vines are 

 comparatively rare, doubtless because there are few areas sufficiently pro- 

 tected from fire for them to flourish. 



On the other hand, this region contrasts with those just north and south 

 of it in the number of rare plants. Cyrilla parvifolia and Juncus abortivus 



