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few vines, briers or herbs. It is usually denser in the Ocala area 
than it is farther down the peninsula. In some places it passes 
gradually into scrub thickets (described above) or sandy hammocks 
(described farther on) ; but where it borders the high pine land 
the transition is usually quite abrupt, as has been remarked by 
several previous writers. 
Fire sweeps through the scrub at long intervals, averaging per¬ 
haps once in the lifetime of a pine tree. It goes through the tops 
of the pines and kills them, and their wood is so soft and weak 
that they fall to the ground in a very few years. But very soon after 
the fire their cones open and discharge seeds for a new crop, and 
by the time (he dead trees have fallen there are plenty of young 
ones coming up to take their places. The bushes recover from the 
fire much more quickly than the pines do. In its relations to> fire 
the scrub vegetation seems to differ from any other type in the 
southeastern states, but is very similar to some of the coniferous 
forests of the far north.* 
The following list, based on three days’ work in March and 
one in July, is probably representative enough for the scrub of 
western Marion and eastern Citrus Counties: 
TREES. 
Pinus clausa, 7 Spruce pine 
SMALL TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES. 
Quercus myrtifolia, 2, 4, 6, 7 (Scrub oak) 
Cholisma ferruginea, 2, 5, 7, 9 
Serenoa serrulata, 2, 4-9 Saw-palmet¬ 
to 
Garberia fruticosa 
Quercus geminata, 2, 4-7 (Scrub) live 
oak 
Osmanthus Americana, 2, 7-9 
Batodendron arboaeum, 2, 
6-9 Sparkleberry 
Sabal Etonia, 7 (Dwarf) cab¬ 
bage pal¬ 
metto 
Persea humilis, 2 
Quercus Chapmani, 2, 7 (An oak) 
Smilax auriculata, 2, 8, 9 (A vine) 
Polycodium revolutum? Gooseberry 
Clinopodium coceineum 
Ceratiola ericoides, 2, 5 • Rosemary 
Vaccinium nitidum, 1 , 2, 4, 
5, 7 Huckleberry 
Bejaria racemosa, 2, 4, 5 
HERBS. 
Tillandsia usneoides, 2 , 4-11 Spanish moss Erythrina herbacea, 7 
Petalostemon Feayi Indigofera Caroliniana, 5 
Galactia regularis? 
There are also a few additional flowering plants seen only once 
each, and a few lichens and parasitic fungi. 
*See Pop. Sci. Monthly 85 1358-359 Oct., 1914. 
