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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. 



Pseudo phoenix 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. arbor escens 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 



