90 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT hammocks often grade into swamps, which are more or less calcareous too. The coast is bordered by marshes, as already stated, and there are quite a number of shallow ponds and wet prairies, particularly in Sumter County. The commonest plants are about as follows: COMMAONEST PLANTS OF GULF HAMM\OCK REGION. TIMBER TREES Pinus palustris Long-leaf pine Pine lands Sabal Palmetto Cabbage palmetto Low hammocks, etc. Taxodium distichum Cypress Swamps and low hammocks Pinus Caribaea Slash pine Low pine lands Taxodium imbricarium (Pond) cypress Cypress ponds Pinus Elliottii Slash pine Low pine lands Liquidambar Styraciflua Sweet gum Low hammocks, etc. Pinus Taeda Short-leaf pine Low hammocks, etc. Acer rubrum Red maple Swamps and low hammocks Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia Hammocks Quercus Virginiana Live oak Hammocks, etc. Juniperns Virginiana Cedar Low hammocks, etc. Pinus clausa Spruce pine Scrub Ulmus Floridana Elm Low hammocks Tilia pubescens? Lin Hammocks Fraxinus profunda? Ash Swamps Quercus hybrida? Water oak Low hammocks Quercus Michauxii Swamp chestn't oak Low hammocks Quercus nigra Water oak Low hammocks Celtis occidentalis? Hackberry Low hammocks SMALL TREES. Carpinus Caroliniana Ironwood Low hammocks Salis longipes? Willow Edges of swamps, etc. Quercus Catesbaei Black-jack oak High pine land Magnolia glauca Bay Swamps Quercus cinerea Turkey oak High pine land Quercus geminata Live oak High pine land, etc. Fraxinus Caroliniana? Ash Swamps Persea pubescens Red bay Swamps Osmanthus Americana Hammocks Ostrya Virginiana Hammocks WOODY VINES. Berchemia scandens Rattan vine Low hammocks Rhus radicans Poison ivy Low hammocks, etc. Gelsemium sempervirens Yellow jessamine Hammocks Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper Hammocks Smilax laurifolia Bamboo vine Swamps Decumaria barbara Swamps Ampelopsis arborea Low hammocks SHRUBS Serenoa serrulata Saw-palmetto Flatwoods Myrica cerifera Myrtle Hammocks Ilex glabra Gallberry Flatwoods Cornus stricta? Low hammocks Pieris nitida (Hurrah bush) Swamps and flatwoods Cholisma ferruginea Sandy hammocks Quercus myrtifolia (Scrub oak) Scrub, etc. Myrica pumila Myrtle Flatwoods Cephalanthus occidentalis (Elbow bush) Ponds and swamps Asimina pygmaea? Pawpaw Flatwoods Viburnum obovatum Low hammocks Vaccinium nitidum Huckleberry Flatwoods Quercus minima (Oak runner) Flatwoods Aralia spinosa Prickly ash Hammocks Sabal glabra Palmetto Low hammocks, etc. Itea Virginica Swamps Rosa palustris (Wild rose) Swamps Hypericum fasciculatum Sand myrtle Ponds, etc.