168 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
6 . RED OAK WOODS. 
(figure 65.) 
This type of vegetation is usually located between high pine 
land and high (clayey or calcareous) hammocks, and it grades 
into both in soil and in vegetation, making a connecting link be¬ 
tween two' dissimilar types. In its most typical development it 
corresponds approximately with the “Gainesville loamy sand” of 
the soil map. On the vegetation map the extreme phase with little 
or no pine is combined with the hammocks, and only the phase 
with red oak and long-leaf pine mixed mapped separately. 
The soil is usually sandy at the surface, but contains consider¬ 
able amounts of clayey, calcareous and phosphatic material, prob¬ 
ably varying a good deal in short distances. It is one of the 
richest upland soils in the state, especially in phosphorus. (See 
chemical analysis No. 2, page 123.) 
Salamanders go into this type of vegetation just about as far 
as the long-leaf pine does, but some of the other characteristic 
subterr.anean animals of the high pine land have not been observed. 
The red oak woods resemble the high pine land in having little 
underbrush, but in their typical or extreme development, where the 
trees are all deciduous, they are rather shady, and have consider¬ 
able humus and very little herbaceous vegetation. As the pine 
land is approached they become more open, wire-grass and other 
pine land herbs appear, and evidences of fire become more frequent. 
The following list is based on observations made within a few 
miles of Ocala in February and March, and may not be very 
complete for the herbs. Shrubs and vines are combined, but the 
names of the vines are distinguished by V. 
TREES. 
Quercus falcata, 5, 8 
Pinus palustris, 4, 5, 12 
Hicoria alba? 5 
Liquidambar Styraciflua, 7- 
11 
Pinus Taeda, 8, 10, 11 
Red oak 
Long-leaf 
pine 
Hickory 
Sweet gum 
Short-leaf 
pine 
Quercus laurifolia, 7, 8 
Cornus florida, 7, 8 
Hicoria glabra? 7, 8 
Persea Borbonia, 7, 8 
Quercus nigra, 7-9, 11 
Ilex opaea, 7-9, 11 
Cercis Canadensis, 8 
SMALL TREES. 
(An oak) 
Dogwood 
Hickory 
(Red bay) 
Water oak 
Holly 
Redbud 
Crataegus Michauxii? 5 Red haw Batodendron arboreum, 2, 3, 
Quercus geminata, 2-5, 7 Live oak 7-9 
Xanthoxylum Clava-Herculis (Prickly ash) 
Sparkleberry 
