VEGETATION TYPES. 
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S Gaylussacia mimosa, 4 Huckleberry 
Eriogonum Floridanum. 
Aster concolor 
S Castanea alnifolia Chinquapin 
S Bejaria racemosa, 2-4 
Asclepias humistrata Milkweed 
S Baccharis halimifolia, 9 
Verbena carnea 
Commelina angustifolia? 
Scutellaria multiglandulosa 
Euphorbia cordifolia 
Tillandsia recurvata 
Sisyrinchium sp. 
Gerardia divaricata? 
Onosmodium sp. 
Zamia integrifolia 
Eupinus diffusus 
Scleria glabra 
Gymnopogon ambiguus 
Aster squarrosus 
Petalostemon albidus 
Indigofera Caroliniana, 3 
Coontie 
Air-plant 
(A sedge) 
(A grass) 
The only evergreen trees are the pine and live oak, but they make 
up about 75% of the bulk of the vegetation. About three-fourths 
of the shrubs too are evergreen, and about 15% of them are Eri¬ 
caceae. Something like 16% of the herbs are Leguminosae—a pretty 
high proportion. Mosses, lichens, and woody vines are rare or 
absent, being very sensitive to hre. In the Ocala area the high pine 
land is almost coextensive with the lime-sink region, and the rela¬ 
tive abundance of the species above listed is much the same as in the 
list of lime-sink region plants from a little farther north, listed in 
the 6th Annual Report, pages 316-318. Most of the species have a 
pretty wide distribution in Florida and the southern parts of, adjoin¬ 
ing states, where the soils are pretty sandy and the summers wetter 
than the winters. Mesadenia Floridana, Chapmania, and a few of 
the rarer species are confined to Florida. 
The long-leaf pine is an important source of fuel, fence-posts 
(and formerly fence-rails, which are little used now), lumber and 
naval stores, and the wire-grass and other herbs feed thousands of 
cattle, whose raising costs almost nothing. In the vicinity of the 
phosphate mines in the western part of the area nearly all the pine 
has been cut off from thousands of acres for the purpose of drying 
the phosphate rock after it is washed, giving the country a very 
desolate appearance; but young pines are springing up abundantly 
in many places, and the forests will readily re-establish themselves 
if given a chance. 
A considerable part of the high pine land is now under cul¬ 
tivation. Although the soil is naturally less fertile than that of 
the red oak woods and high hammocks near by, it is much easier 
to clear and somewhat easier to plow, and a small expenditure for 
fertilizer brings handsome returns in crop yields. 
