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ponds which fluctuate several feet are usually treeless, with a 

 characteristic vegetation of herbs and scattered shrubs, which in 

 the case of ponds which dry up completely covers the whole basin. 

 Such areas usually pass abruptly into the surrounding pine for- 

 ests, without any intervening fringe of hammock vegetation ; 

 which presumably indicates that the pond-margin vegetation is 

 no barrier to fire in the dry season. 



The ponds which fluctuate least usually contain cypress, at 

 least around their edges, where the water is not too deep. Just 

 outside of the cypress there is commonly a narrow belt of bay 

 vegetation, and next to that more or less hammock, which is pro- 

 tected from fire on one side by the pond. 



The streams are bordered by narrow swamps which seem to 

 present no peculiar features, and some of them have hammocks 

 besides. Near some of the streams and ponds, especially within a 

 mile or two of the adjacent flat woods (regions 9 and 16), there 

 are small areas of low pine land. 



Plants — The following list is based on observations made 

 on 17 days in eight different months, as follows: January, i; 

 March, 2 ; April, 5 ; June, 3 ; July, i ; September, 2 ; October, 2 ; 

 December, i. 



TREES 



+53-0 Pinus palustris 

 + + I4-5 Quercus Catesbaei 

 "f" 5-3 Quercus cinerea 

 — 4.4 Taxodiiim imbricariuni 

 — T.6 Pinus Elliottii 

 — 1.2 Pinus Taeda 

 — i.o Nyssa biflora 

 + 1.0 Quercus geminata 



0.7 Quercus Virginiana 

 — 0.6 Liquidambar Styraciflua 

 +0.6 Quercus Margaretta 

 — 0.5 Magnolia glauca 



0.5 Quercus laurifolia 



0.4 Hicoria alba 

 — 0.3 Pinus serotina 

 — 0.2 Quercus falcata 

 — 0.2 Quercus nigra 

 — 0.2 Magnolia grandiflora 

 ).2 Acer rubrum* 



-0.2 Taxodium distichum 



Q.i Hicoria glabra 

 .1 Ostrya Virginiana 



Long-leaf pine 

 Black-jack oak 

 Turkey oak 

 (Pond) cypress 

 (Slash pine) 

 Short-leaf pine 

 Black gum 

 Live oak 

 Live oak 

 Sweet gum 

 Post oak 

 Bay 

 Oak 



Hickory 

 (Black pine) 

 Red oak 

 Water oak 

 Magnolia 

 Afaple 

 Cypress 

 Hickory 



Uplands 



Uplands 



Uplands 



Ponds, etc. 



Low pine land 



Richer soils 



Swamps 



Around ponds, etc. 



Hammocks, etc. 



Richer soils 



Uplands 



Swamps 



Hammocks 



Richer soils 



Low pine land 



Richer soils 



Richer soils 



Hammocks 



Swamps 



Sloughs, etc. 



Hammocks 



Hammocks 



*Probably including the var. tridens. 

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