146 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

section of the soils of the east coast. Separating the Brevard
County portion from that south of our limits, we find that the soils are referred to the "St. Lucie," "Portsmouth," "Palm Beach,"
"Parkwood," "Norfolk," and "Gainesville" series, and the prevailing texture classes are sand (over 50% without the coastal beach), fine sand, tidal marsh, fine sandy loam, coastal beach, muck. and


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 Fig. 32. Small pool in vast damp calcareous palm savanna near head of Newfound Harbor on Merritt's Island, showing cabbage palmettos and switchgrass (Spartina Bakeri), Feb. 7, 1915.














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 Fig. 33. Looking north along crest of outermost dunes, 15 or 20 feet high, about a mile south of Melbourne Beach, Brevard County. Vegetation mostly saw-palmetto and sea-oats. Feb. 4, 1915.