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- | Hammock backed with Pine- 
land, and. 
Palmetto Hammock .8 kilometer (14 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 
