I46 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
only one leguminous plant appears in the list —Galactia Elliottii. 
The pines yield lumber and turpentine, and the saw-palmetto and 
gallberry are important sources of honey. The various huckleberries 
have some food value, and at least two of the herbs, Pterocaulon 
and Trilisa odoratissima, have medicinal properties; so that flat- 
woods land ought to be worth more than scrub, even where it is 
not cultivated. 
5 - HIGH PINE LAND. 
(figure 64.) 
This is the most extensive type of vegetation in the Ocala area, 
covering something like half of it. It is approximately coextensive 
with the “Norfolk sand,” “Norfolk fine sand,” and “Gainesville 
fine sand” of the soil map, and also covers part of the '“Fellowship 
sandy loam” in the extreme northern portion. On the vegetation 
map three types of high pine land are distinguished, namely, open 
pine woods, pine with black-jack oak, and pine with turkey oak; 
but the herbaceous vegetation of all these types is so similar that it 
did not seem worth while to make three separate lists. The open 
pine woods seem to be correlated with the “Gainesville fine sand” 
(from which on account of its proximity to the phosphate mines 
most of the pine has been removed by the phosphate people, leaving 
large treeless wastes) and also With virgin forests. The black-jack 
oak abounds in the driest or barrenest portions of the high pine 
land, especially where the largest pines have been cut out by lumber¬ 
men. Where the turkey oak predominates it seems to indicate soils 
of a little finer texture or perhaps more phosphatic than the average, 
though it commonly associates with the black-jack and is less abun¬ 
dant. 
The soil is mostly sand, with 2 to 8% of silt and clay, several 
feet deep. Generally it has a very loose texture and a pale buff color, 
varying toward white, yellow, brown or gray in different places. 
Small outcrops of flinty limestone are occasionally seen, but seem to 
have little or no effect on the vegetation. Humus is absent or nearly 
so, on account of frequent fires and lack of shade, and the ground- 
water stands several to many feet below the surface; rarely high 
enough, in fact, to be brought up by suction pumps. There are 
whole townships of high pine land in which there is no surface 
water whatever. 
The subterranean fauna of the high pine land is very character¬ 
istic. On every acre of it, especially in spring, low mounds of 
