TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 



VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 



DENAUD 



Oak-Saw-Palmetto Sclerophyllous Hammock. Oak-Saw-Palmetto Sclerophyllous Hammock. 



River Hammock backed by Pineland. River Hammock backed by Pine Forest. 



TURNERS 



Oak-Palmetto Hammock backed with Pine- Oak-Palmetto Hammock backed with Pine- 



land, land. 



Palmetto Hammock .8 kilometer (K mile) wide Palmetto Hammock .8 kilometer (]4 mile) 



wide. 

 Pineland with Saw-Palmetto. 



LABELLE 



Oak-Palmetto Hammock with water hickory. Oak-Palmetto Hammock with water hickory. 



Prairie. Prairie. 



FT. THOMPSON 



Live-Oak Hammock with scattered Palmettos. Live-Oak Hammock with scattered Palmettos. 



Live-Oak-Palmetto Hammock backed by Willow Thicket. 



Pine Forest. Open Country backed by Live-Oak Hammock 



and tall Pine Forest. 

 Palmetto Savanna. 



LAKE FLIRT 



(Bordered by a Willow Thicket) 



Maiden-Cane Swamp and Willow Thicket. Reed Swamp and Willow Thicket. 



Hammock backed by Pine Forest. 



BONNET LAKE 



Palmetto Hammock backed by Pine Forest. Willow Thicket. 



Small Palmetto Hammock of 21 Palmettos Prairie with Pine Forest along southern edge. 



called Coffee Mill Hammock. Prairie. 



Prairie with Hammock and Pineland in the Maiden-Cane Swamp with willows backed by 



rear. Hammock. 



Prairie backed by Cypress Head. 

 Maiden-Cane Swamp and willow clumps with 



Hammock with Cypress and Palmetto in 



the rear. 



CITRUS CENTER 



Prairie with scattered Palmetto Hammock. Prairie. 



Pine Forest runs out. Everglades. 



LAKE HICPOCHEE 

 Everglades. Everglades. 



Palmetto Hammock Formation (Plate VI, Fig. 2). The typic river ham- 

 mock formation of the Caloosahatchee River is one which consists almost 

 entirely of pure growths of the palmetto, Sabal palmetto (Walt.) R. & S., with 

 hardly any undergrowth, as the periodic inundations destroy the herbaceous 

 growth and leave a slime that helps to produce the same effect (Plate VI, Fig. 

 2). The flood water too drives out the supply of oxygen in the soil upon which 

 the health of the roots of the herbaceous plants depends, so that the plants 

 succumb. Where the river banks have been washed away the large swollen 

 bases of the palmetto trees with their short secondary roots on the rounded 



