13- WAKULLA HAMMOCK COUNTRY. 



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Vegetation Types — The poorest soils have a vegetation com- 

 posed mostly of long-leaf pine and black-jack oak, like that which 

 prevails in the neighboring Bellair sand region already described. 

 But there are all gradations between that and shady forests of 

 red oak, hickory, dogwood, and other deciduous trees. In a few 

 places the hardwood forests contain a good deal of magnolia, 

 evergreen willow oak, and other broad-leaved evergreens; a dif- 

 ference presumably correlated with the composition of the soil. 

 The occurrence of a few patches of flatwoods has been mentioned 

 above. The Wakulla River is bordered by iswamps, and the few 

 ponds and sloughs have some characteristic vegetation around 

 them. 



The high pine land and flatwoods nearly everywhere bear the 

 marks of fire, which naturally does not invade the hardwood for- 

 ests much. Where broad-leaved evergreens are common the veg- 

 etation may have been pine originally, and the protection from 

 fire afforded by deciduous forests on one side may have allowed 

 hammock vegetation to develop, as seems to have happened in 

 many other places in the coastal plain. 



Plants — The following list is based on observations made in 

 walking through the region four times, in April, June, July and 

 October. 



TREES 



— 29.7 Pinus palustris 

 +5-8 Quercus falcata 

 +-(-5.5 Hicoria alba 

 ^-5.5 Cornus florida 

 -[-4.5 Querctis CatQsbaei 

 +3.9 Quercus laurifolia 



'^'^3-3 Quercus stellata 



-\-3.1 Pinus echinata 



-1-3.1 Quercus cinerea 



+2.6 Magnolia grandiflora 

 ■\ — 1-2.6 Sassafras variifolium 



— 2.3 Pinus Taeda 



— 1.9 Liquidambar Styraciflua 



4-1.8 Diospyros Virginiana (X) 

 -|--|-i.6 Quercus alba 



-I-1.6 TiHa pubqscens 



Long-leaf pine 

 Red oak 

 Hickory 

 Dogwood 

 Black-jack oak 

 (Evergreen wil- 

 low oak) 

 Post oak 

 Short-leaf pine 

 (Turkey oak) 

 Magnolia 

 Sassafras 

 Short-leaf pine 

 Sweet gum 

 Persimmon 

 White oak 

 (Lin) 



Poorer soils 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Poorer soils 



Hammocks 

 Uplands 

 Uplands 

 Poorer soils 

 Hammocks 

 Uplands 

 Hammocks, etc. 

 Various situations 

 Old fields, etc. 

 Richer soils 

 Hammocks 



time it remains underground. A few instances of springs in Florida in which 

 the water is sometimes clear and sometimes coffee-colored are mentioned on 

 page 284 of the Third Annual Report. (To the reference there given for Iche- 

 tucknee Spring can now be added Matson & Sanford. p. 287.) 



