From the text...'Lake Tsula Apopka, in the eastern part of Citrus County Florida, is a shallow irregularly shaped sheet of water about 15 miles long and 5 miles wise, lying parallel to the Withlacooche River, just about on the line between the lime-sink and Gulf hammock regions. Its bed and shores. like most of the surface of central Florida, are composed of sand presumably many feet in depth, covered with a little humus or peat in certain spots, but mostly fully exposed to the light. The topography in that part of the state is determined not so much by subaerial erosion as by irregular solution of the limestone which underlies the sand, and undulates in such a way as to give the lake an extremely sinious outline. This lake is so interspersed with islands ans peninsulas that there is probably no point on its shore from which more than a few hundred acres of water can be seen at one time, even at its highest stage. The county bordering the lake , on the west side...is of the type known in Florida as 'high pine land'; which means that it is covered with open forests of long-leaf pine, Pinus palutris (which probably more abundant in central Florida than all other trees combined), with a fairly dense undergrowth of grasses and other herbs--most of them with small or narrow leaves--almost no shrubs or vines, and no mosses or lichens on the trees. Probably the most striking difference between long-leaf pine forests and other kinds is the scarcity of shade, and the other differences are in large measure correlated with this.' ©Torrey Botanical Society. Abstract reproduced by permission. E-mail: info@torreybotanical.org.