VEGETATION TYPES. 
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SHRUBS AND VINES. 
Myrica cerifera,* 1, 7-11 Myrtle 
Myrica pumila,* 4, 5 Myrtle 
Phoradendron flavescens, 2, 
5, 7, 8 Mistletoe 
Quercus myrtifolia? 2-4, 7 (Scrub oak) 
Rhus copallina, 5 Sumac 
Serenoa serrulata, 2-5, 7-9 Saw-palmet¬ 
to 
V Parthenocissus quinquefo- 
lia, 8, 11 Virginia 
creeper 
Chrysobalanus oblongifolius, 5 
Callicarpa Americana, 7-9 French mul¬ 
berry 
Aralia spinosa, 9 Prickly ash 
V Smilax lanceolata, 8 (Wild smilax) 
V Gelsemium sempervirens. 
7, 8 
V Rubus trivialis, 8 
Yellow jessa¬ 
mine 
Dewberry 
HERBS. 
Tillandsia usneoides, 2-5, 7- 
11 Spanish moss 
Pteridium aquilinum, 4, 5, 8 (A fern) 
Aristida stricta, 4, 5, 12 Wire-grass 
Houstonia rotundifolia, 4, 5, 8 
Viola palmata? 4 (Blue) violet 
Berlandlera subacaulis, 5 
Eriogonum tomentosum, 5 
Sericocarpus bifoliatus, 5 
Elephantopus tomentosus? 8 
Eupatorium aromaticum, 5 
Helianthemum Carolinianum 
Mesadenia Floridana, 5 
Salvia lyrata, 8 
Conopholis Americana, 7-9 
(and a few others seen only once.) 
The red oak and the first hickory listed are especially charac¬ 
teristic of this type of vegetation, and in central Florida almost 
confined to it; but most of the other species are equally at home 
either in the high pine land or in the calcareous hammocks to be 
described below. The percentage of evergreens varies from nothing 
in the richest spots to about 70% at the edge of the pine land, and 
probably averages about 35%, a very low figure for Florida. (This 
vegetation beajs considerable resemblance to the oak and hickory 
woods of the Wakulla hammock country, described in the 6t*h An¬ 
nual Report, pages 291, 379, 397.) The red oak, although this is 
just about the southern limit of its range, grows just about as large 
here as it does anywhere. 
The scattered pines have been utilized to some extent for lumber 
and turpentine, and the oaks and hickories for fuel. The Spanish 
moss which is gathered in a small way for mattress-making in this 
part of the state probably conies mostly from the red oak woods, 
because it is more abundant there than in the other types of forest. 
The soil is very fertile, and there is no telling how much of the 
original red oak woods has been replaced by cultivated fields; prob¬ 
ably at least half. 
*In the red oak woods there seem to be all gradations between these two 
ordinarily distinct shrubs. 
