IN FLORIDA IOI 
its leaves. It grows only, so far as is known, along the shores 
of Biscayne Bay. 
All the species of the Thrinax group that have come under 
my notice grow slowly at first but all are beautiful either as pot 
plants or in the open where they are not subject to frost. They 
grow more rapidly when they attain to some size and are perfectly 
at home in partial shade or sunshine and in all soils from damp 
muck to high pine land. 
Pseudophoenix sargenti is a pinnate leaved palm which has 
been found in a wild state on Elliott’s Key and, according to 
Sargent, on the east end of Key Largo near the northern shore. 
It is a rather slender, stiff looking palm with very dark green 
foliage, and though a striking tree is not nearly so ornamental 
as some of our other native palms. I understand that it is 
practically extinct in the localities I have given as many speci- 
mens have been dug up and taken away to be planted, but it 
does well in cultivation. 
Two species of fan palms belonging to the genus Acoelorraphe 
are found growing in almost inaccessible swamps in extreme South 
Florida. A. arborescens belongs to the Chokoloskee River region 
and reaches a height of forty feet with more or less recumbent or 
erect stems, often in clusters. I found a single specimen of 
what I suppose is this species back of Flamingo, near White- 
water Bay. 
A. wrighti is found in similar situations to the last along the 
south coast of the mainland. It grows in immense clumps fifty 
feet or more across and thirty feet high, and when seen in such 
masses it is a beautiful object. The latter species is growing 
finely in moist ground at Mr. John Soar’s place and without 
doubt the former would succeed in a like situation. 
Lastly the coconut (Cocos nucifera) has been completely 
naturalized on the Florida Keys and the lower mainland. It is 
cultivated occasionally as far north as Manatee on the west 
coast and Fort Pierce on the east coast. No words can ade- 
quately describe the beauty of this palm, which is as fine and 
vigorous in many of the lower Floridian localities as it is within 
the tropics. 
I have entered into some detail-in my account of our native 
