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VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 5 
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| TREES 
Sabal palmetto Salix longipes 
| Annona glabra Quercus virginiana 
| Chrysobalanus pellocarpus Rhus (Metopium) toxiferum 
Persea pubescens Morinda roioc 
Tlex cassine 
SHRUBS 
Myrica cerifera Cephalanthus occidentalis 
| LIANES | 
Vitis Munsoniana Smilax laurifolia | 
Mikania batatifolia 
EPIPHYTES 
Phlebodium aureum Tillandsia (several species) 
Orchidaceae (several species) 
ROOTING AQUATICS 
| Sagittaria lancifolia Typha angustifolia 
| Cladium effusum Phragmites phragmites 
SUBMERGED AQUATICS 
Proserpinaca platycarpa Isnardia natans 
The pine woods, as previously described with an even stand of tall boles, 
allow an unbroken vista in all directions over a flat, forest floor covered by 
low shrubs and an occasional silver-palm, Coccothrinax argentea (Lodd.) Sarg. 
| (Plate II, Fig. 3). The tall tree columns supporting the dark green crown of 
pine foliage permit a large amount of sunlight to reach the ground between the 
widely spaced pine trees. The vegetation of the banana holes is in strong 
contrast to this open, sunlit pine forest, for the continuous vista of the pine 
woods is broken by the clumps of broad-leaved trees and shrubs in the banana 
holes, wherever they stand in the line of sight. These associations are com- 
posed of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous shrubs and trees, some of 
which are evergeen, loaded in some cases with epiphytes, which seize upon 
the available light spaces, while the remaining intervals are closed by the 
growth of the vines previously described. Such plants, which grow beneath 
the crown of the pine trees, consist of tolerant species, while the pine trees are 
intolerant. 
In the shade of the pines and banana hole trees the moisture-loving 
epiphytic ferns, orchids and bromeliads grow. Altogether the dense, tangled 
mass of plants growing in closed association cast a dark shade which contrasts 
