30 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
SUMMARY. 
The foregoing comprise more or less positively identified 
remains of 27 species of plants. Nineteen of these have not been 
previously found fossil, while the following eight have already 
been discovered in Pliocene or Pleistocene deposits: 
Pinus taeda. 
Brasenia purpurea. 
Acer rubrum. 
Zizyphus sp. 
Viburnum nudum. 
Taxodium distichum. 
Quercus virginiana. 
Magnolia virginiana. 
The problem, in so far as it relates to the evidence of the plants, 
depends on the correct evaluation of the change which this plant 
assemblage shows when compared with the flora now growing at 
Vero. 
Of the plants found fossil the following are'still found at Vero, 
and I have included in this list as probably found in the present 
flora of Vero the 4 forms of Pinus, Carex, Polygonum and 
Xanthium which are not specifically identified. This list comprises : 
Pinus caribaea. Quercus brevifolia. 
Pinus sp. Polygonum sp. 
Carex sp. Magnolia virginiana. 
Serenoa serrulata. Ilex glabra. 
Sabal palmetto. Acer rubrum. 
Myrica cerifera. Vitis cf rotundifolia. 
Quercus virginiana. Xanthium sp. 
Quercus laurifolia. 
In addition to the foregoing 15 species still found at Vero the 
following two species are found growing within 10 or 12 miles of 
Vero : 
Taxodium distichum. Anona glabra. 
Three species approach to within about 50 miles of Vero, being 
recorded from the, southern extension of the Lake region flora of 
the central peninsula in DeSoto County. These are: 
Pinus taeda Viburnum nudum. 
Pistia spathulata. 
The following six species are not now found growing in penin¬ 
sular Florida. 
