GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORII)A 15 the whole South, grows nearly throughout this region, but no farther south. The reason for all this is not apparent, but may be connected with geological history in some way.* The scrub is nearly all in one patch, a few miles south of Brooksville, and has not been examined by the writer'. The absence of the red oak has been mentioned above, and the species of trees seem to be fewer than in the Middle Florida hammock belt. Nearly all the plants seem to be of fairly common and widely distributed species (as in the Tallahassee red hills of northern Florida,- and many other places where short-leaf pines abound), and the most abundant seem to be as follows: COMMONEST PLANTS OF HERNANDO HAMMOCK BELT. TIMBER TREES Pinus palustris Long-leaf pine High pine land, etc. Pinus Taeda Short-leaf pine Hammocks Liquidambar Styraciflua Sweet gum Various situations Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia Hammocks Quercus laurifolia Hammocks Quercus Virginiana Live oak Hammocks Quercus Michauxii Low hammocks Hicoria glabra? Hickory Hammocks Quercus nigra Water oak Various situations Ulmus alata Elm Hammocks Tilia pubescens? Lin Hammocks Celtis occidentalis? Hackberry Hammocks Ulmus Fleridana Elm Low hammocks (Diospyros Virginiana) Persimmon Old fields Persea Borbonia Red bay Hammocks SMALL TREES. Quercus Catesbaej Black-jack oak High pine land Carpinus Caroliniana c Ironwood Low hammocks Cornus florida Dogwood Hammocks flex opaca Holly. Hammocks Osinanthus Americana Hammocks Batodendron arboreum Sparkleberry Sandy hammocks Quercus geminata Live oak Sandy uplands Ostrya Virginiana Hammocks Magnolia glauca Bay Along streams Serenoa serrulata* Saw-palmetto Hammocks WOODY VINES. Gelsemium sempervirens Yellow jessamine. Hammocks, etc. Vitis rotundifolia Muscadine Hammocks Rhus radicans Poison ivy Low hammocks (Rubus trivialis?) Dewberry Old fields, etc. Eignonia crucigera Cross-vine Hammocks *The similarity of Hernando County (.which then included the present territory of Citrus and Pasco as well) to some places much farther north was commented on nearly forty years ago by Dr. Eugene A. Smith (Tenth Census U. S., vol. 6, p. 238. 1884). tSee 6th Ann. Rep., p. 277. TA form with ascending or erect trunk, sometimes ten feet tall.