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Juncus marginatus, Eostk. 



Juneus marginatus, Eostk., Monogr. June, p. 28, t. 2, fig. 2 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 495. 



Bermudas.— Indigenous. Marshes — Moseley; Lefroy. 

 New Jersey and Illinois southward to Florida and Texas. 



PALMEiE. 



Sabal blackburniana, Glazebrook. (Plates VI., VII., VIII., IX.) 



Sabal blackburniana, Glazebrook in Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine, 1829, v. p. 54, cum fig. xylogr. ; 



Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., vii. p. 1488. 

 Sabal palmetto, Eein in Bericht Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellscb., Frankf. am. M., 1873, p. 150, et auct. 



plur. non Rcem. et Schult. 

 OJiamcerops excelsa et Chamcerops palmetto, Lefroy's list, Berm. PI. 

 Chamcerops glabra, Jones, Naturalist in Bermuda, p. 136. 

 Sabal umbraculifera, Mart., Hist. Palm., i. t. T., fig. 5, t. Y., figs. 5, 6, 7, t. Z., i., figs. 1-56, et iii., 



p. 245, t. 130? non Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Iud. p. 514. 1 

 Cori/jih't umbraculifera, Jacq., Fragm. Bot., p. 12, non Linn. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous and endemic 1 Common throughout the islands. 



Until Sir Joseph Hooker took the palms in hand to elaborate them for the Genera 

 Plantarum, it seems to have been generally supposed that Sabal palmetto inhabited the 

 Bermudas as well as south-eastern North America : but among the imperfect material in 

 British herbaria from the islands there was nothing belonging to that species ; and what 

 there was, though insufficient for identification, indicated a different species. The 

 descriptions, too, in the earlier writers of the fruit of the Bermudan palm proved that the 

 common one could not be Sabal palmetto, for the fruits were much larger. At first it 

 seemed doubtful whether there was not more than one species indigenous in the Bermudas ; 

 but, thanks to the kindness of several gentlemen resident in the islands, we have been 

 able to examine ample material, and are now in a position, we believe, to assert that there 

 is only one. It is true that Mr Charles C. Keane sent sketches and measurements of 

 what he thought were distinct species, and which we, at first, believed might be such, 

 but finally decided were from trees of different ages. This view is confirmed by the fact 

 that flowers and fruit of only one species have been received, and young and old plants 

 of the same species under cultivation exhibit the diversities regarded as specific by 

 Mr Keane. Nevertheless, some portions of Mr Keane's letters to Sir Joseph Hooker 

 relating to these different states appear to be worth putting on record here. 



" I wrote you some few days since enclosing a sketch of what seems to me to be two 

 different specimens [species] of the palmetto. I have this day had packed and shall send 



1 There is some doubt as to the date of the publication of Martius's name, though the description appeared 

 about or after 1836. Moreover, there is no ground for retaining the name umbraculifera, because Jacquin gave 

 it to a young plant believing it was the Asiatic Corypha umbraculifera. Grisebach specially mentions the palm 

 cultivated as not being the same as the one he describes as Sabal umbraculifera. 



