MY TREE 



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so hard that they turned the cutting blade of an 

 axe. Near my spiked tree was a stilt palm (Fig. 

 30, page 69), so called from its manner of bracing 



Fig. 21. A fern vine 



its trunk with roots branching out five feet above 

 the ground. You probably do not remember as 

 well as I do the thorny Spanish-bayonet palm 

 to which we tied our cayuca at the landing. 



