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Pallenis—continued. 
ones, or outer involucral bracts, leafy, often pungently mucro- 
nate. h. 2}ft. Orient, South Europe, and North Africa, 1570. 
(S. F. G. 898, under name of Buphthalmum spinosum.) 
PALM. A general name for the members of the family 
Palmæ. 
PALM. A measurement equalling 3in., or the breadth 
of the four fingers of the hand. 
PALMA-CHRISTI. See Ricinus communis. 
Palmz— continued. 
same subjects in their native forests. Those who have 
had the pleasure of seeing these “Princes of the Vege- 
table Kingdom,” as Linneus rightly styled them, in 
their native wilds, must feel that the impressions pro- 
duced can never be effaced from the memory. While 
some ‘tower, when full grown, to a height much sur- 
passing 100ft., without emitting a leaf (eg., Cerorylon 
andicola), the stems of others do not exceed 2ft. 
or 3ft. in length, and jin. in thickness; others, 
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PALMZ, or PALMACEZ. This large order is 
pre-eminent, not only among monocotyledons, but in the 
whole world of plants, for the grandeur and beauty 
attained by many of the species. The order is also 
pre-eminently tropical in its distribution, so that, to 
dwellers in the cooler temperate zones, its wonderful 
beauty is a thing to be read of, not to be realised. 
Palms under glass, however spacious the accommodation 
allowed them, fail to impress the mind as do the 
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the top, but in the Hyphene thebaica it bifurcates 
again, have the stems so short that the leaves borne 
on the top of the stem rise out of the soil, and the 
whole plant does not exceed 3ft. in height. These 
dwarf Palms, however, are no less graceful than their 
lofty allies, and are, moreover, better known than the 
latter in European greenhouses, for which their dwarf 
stature so well fits them. 
The stem is usually unbranched from the ground to 
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