142 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
The following plants were observed mostly in March, 1915, a 
few miles east of Inverness: 
WOODY PLANTS 
Quercus myrtifolia, 3, 4, 6, 7 
Cholisma ferruginea, 3, 5, 7, 
Serenoa serrulata, 3-9 
Quercus geminata, 3-7 
Bejaria racemosa, 3-5 
Vaccinium nitidum, 1, 3-5, 7 
Quercus Chapmani? 3, 7 
Ceratiola ericoides, 3, 5 
(Serub oak) 
9 
Saw-palmet 
to 
(Scrub) live 
oak 
Huckleberry 
(An oak) 
Rosemary 
Persea humilis? 3 
Pieris nitida, 4 (Hurrah 
bush) 
Polycodium sp. (3, 5, 7?) Gooseberry 
Osmanthus Americana, 3, 7-9 
Batodendron arboreum, 3 
6-9 Sparkleberry 
Phoradendron flavescens, 5-8 Mistletoe 
Smilax auriculata, 3, 8, 9 (A vine) 
Pyenothymus rigidus, 4 
HERBS. 
Tillandsia usneoides, 3-11 Spanish moss Rhynchospora dodecandra, 7 (A sedge) 
These are nearly all evergreen; Ericaceae make up about one- 
third of the total vegetation, and there are no Leguminosae; all of 
which presumably indicates a soil very deficient in soluble minerals. 
Besides the above flowering plants, there are a few mosses and 
lichens, all evergreen. The economic importance of all these plants 
is slight. Nearly all of them grow also in the scrub, which will be 
described next. 
3 - THE SCRUB. 
(figures 6o, 61 AND 62.) 
In some ways this is the most unique and interesting vegetation 
in the area under consideration. It is pretty closely correlated with 
a white sandy soil almost devoid of humus and animal life.* Neither 
mechanical nor chemical analyses of this soil from; the Ocala area 
are available, but similar soils from the lake region and east coast 
have been found to be about 98 % silica, with extremely small quan¬ 
tities of soluble matter. 
The typical scrub vegetation consists of spruce pine, growing 
sometimes densely and sometimes scattered, with an undergrowth 
of semi-arborescent oaks and other evergreen shrubbery, with very 
*On the soil map the areas of scrub in Marion and Sumter Counties are 
designated “Norfolk sand with scrub oak vegetation,” while those east of Silver 
Springs and in Citrus County, which are smaller, are not differentiated from the 
surrounding soils. In the chapter on soils it is stated that the white sand is a 
mere veneer, passing into yellowish sand at a depth of less than two inches; 
but this shallowness must be very exceptional, for further east and south there 
are railroad cuts a few feet deep through scrub, in which the sand is just as 
white at the bottom as it is at the top. 
