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developing trees, oaks are most numerous, Q. jalcata Michx. 

 (Spanish or red oak) and Q. stellata Wang (post oak) being the 

 principal pioneers. Q. virginiana Mill, persists, being a tree of 

 almost every habitat, from hydro-mesophytic to xerophytic. When 

 forming groves of large, wide spreading trees, draped with Tilland- 

 sia usneoides L. (Spanish moss) and supporting on the trunks and 



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branches a growth of Poly podium poly podioides Hitch., this live 

 oak is the typical tree of the mesophytic "hammock," a term used 

 in these regions of the south to designate lands supporting a 

 forest growth of deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen species, 

 correlated with a rich and fertile soil (fig. 1). The evergreen Ilex 



1 Ait. grows well in the shade of the pines; and Cornus 



sometimes 



opaca Ait. 



jlorida L. d 



forest, with some of the trunks 12-18 inches in diameter at 2 ft. 



from the ground, the widely spreading tops meeting overhead, 



while above them rise the pines. 



n gust if oli 



(wild 



