TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 



VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 



Fig. i). Number one occurred along the carriage road below Naranja. It 

 was filled, on August 18, 1911, with standing water. The vegetation consisted 

 of the custard-apple, Annona glabra L., which formed a low, stout tree, in full 

 ripe fruit, associated with bay, Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sarg., existing as a 

 shrub, or small tree, sometimes reaching a height of twelve meters; yaupon, 

 Ilex cassine L., an evergreen, small tree with red berries; tall willows, Salix 

 longipes Anders (?); dwarf palmettos, Sabal palmetto (Walt.) R. & S., and 

 such shrubs, as buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentals L. in fruit, Morinda 

 roioc L. with somewhat prostrate habit, and waxberry, Myrica cerifera L. 

 Two vines grew, as prominent elements, namely, Vitis Munsoniana Simpson 

 and Smilax laurifolia L. Several epiphytic tillandsias and orchids grew at- 

 tached to the willow trees, while the fern, Polypodium polypodioides (L.) A. 

 S. Hitchcock ( =P. incanum Sw.) was found abundantly on trees in the de- 

 pression. The mermaid-weed, Proserpinaca platycarpa Small, grew sub- 

 merged in the water. The second banana hole was about five meters in di- 

 ameter with steep rock edges and was filled with water. It accommodated two 

 dwarf palmettos and several smaller ones, four to five custard-apple trees and 

 a group of arrowleaf, Sagittaria lancifolia L., and the submerged mermaid- 

 weed, Proserpinaca platycarpa Small. The third hollow proceeding north- 

 ward was characterized by the presence of a society of the tall reed-grass, 

 Phragmites phragmites L. Karst. together with low custard-apple trees, 

 dwarf palmettos, Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sarg., the coral-sumach, Rhus 

 (Metopium) toxiferum L., yaupon, Ilex cassine L., with bright-red berries, 

 buttonbushes, Cephalanthus occidentalis L., wax-myrtle shrubs, Myrica 

 cerifera L., a low live-oak, Quercus virginiana L., bullace-grape, Vitis Mun- 

 soniana Simpson, and Sagittaria lancifolia L. growing in the shallow water 

 (Plate III, Fig. i). 



Banana hole four, filled with water, showed a denser, more evergreen type 

 of vegetation consisting of the red-berried yaupon, or dahoon, Ilex cassine L., 

 custard-apple, Annona glabra L., bay-trees, Persea pubescens (Pursh.) Sarg., 

 palmettos, Sabal palmetto (Walt.) R. & S., cocoa-plum trees, Chrysobalanus 

 pellocarpus G. F. W. Mey., with orbicular, leathery leaves, in flower, waxberry 

 bushes, Myrica cerifera L., and a few dead shrubs in the center. A large Til- 

 landsia grew attached to the cocoa-plum, while Vitis Munsoniana Simpson 

 climbed the trees, and the mermaid-weed, Proserpinaca platycarpa Small, 

 growing submerged, was extremely abundant (Plate III, Fig. 2). Proceeding 



