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404. Sabal Palmetto, Loddiges; 



Rremer & Schultes, Syst. vii, 1487. C'room in Am. Jour. Sci. 1 SIT. xxvi, 315. Martins, Hist. Palm, iii, 247. Kunth, Ennm. iii, 247. 

 Spach, Hist. Vcg. xii, 107. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 4'M. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 64. Wood, Cl. Book, 

 666; Bot. & Fl. 317. Vasey,C'at. Forest Trees, 38. 



Corypha Palmetto, Walter, Fl.Caroliniana, 119. 



Cliamcerops Palmetto, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i,206. Michaux f. Hist. Arb.-Am. ii, 186, t. 10; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. 

 iii, 5, t. 101. Alton, Hort. Ke.w. 2 ed. v, 490. Nuttall, Genera, i, 231. Elliott, Sk. i,431. Sprengel, Syst> ii, 137. 

 Eaton, M;iimal, 6 ed. 89. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 191. Darby, Bot. S. States, 546. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 258. 

 Porchor, Resources, S. Forests, 526. 



CABBAGE TREE. CABBAGE PALMETTO. 



Smith island, off the mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina, south along the coast to Key Largo, Florida, 

 and along the Gulf coast to the Apalachicola river. 



A tree 7 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 0.90 meter in diameter; sandy maritime shores; very 

 common and reaching- its greatest development upon the west coast of the Florida peninsula south of Cedar 

 Keys. 



Wood light, soft ; fibro-vascular bundles hard, difficult to work, dark colored ; color, light brown ; specific 

 gravity, 0.4404 ; ash, 7.66; impervious to the attacks of the teredo, and very durable under water; largely used 

 for piles, wharves, etc. 



405. Washmgtonia filifera, Wendland, 



Bot. Zeit. xxxvii, 68. Waton, Bot. California, ii, 211, 485. 



Brahea dvlcis,? Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1860, 442 [not Martius]. 



Pfitchardia filamentosa, Wendlaud in Bot. Zeit. xxxiy, 807. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 38. Fenzi in Bull Soc. Tosc, 

 Ort. i, 116 & f. Palmer in Am. Nat. xii, 598. 



Brahea filamentosa, Hort. Williams in London Gard. Chronicle, 1876, 80. 



FAN-LEAP PALM. 



San Bernardino county, California, from the eastern base of the San Bernardino mountains to the valley of 

 the Colorado river. 



A tree 12 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.05 meter in diameter, forming groves of 250 to 500 

 plants in the depressions of the desert, in moist alkaline soil, or solitary and scattered near the heads of small 

 ravines formed by water-courses ; often stunted and greatly injured by fire. 



Wood light, soft ; fibro-vascular bundles hard, difficult to cut, dark colored, conspicuous ; specific gravity 

 0.5173 ; ash, 1.89. 



406. Thrinax parviflora, Swartz, 



Prodr. 57 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i, 614. Aitou, Hort. Kew. iii, 614 ; 2 ed. ii, 307. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 202. Persoon, Syn. i, 383. Poiret in 

 Lamarck, Diet, vii, 633. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 112. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 20. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. vii, 1300. Martius, Hist> 

 Palm, iii, 255, t. 103. Kunth, Enum. iii, 253. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1091. Walpers, Ann. v, 818. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies,. 

 515. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 38. Chapman in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 12 ; Fl. S. States^ Suppl. 651. 



T. GarDeri, Chapman in Coulter's Bofc. Gazette, iii, 12; Fl. S. States, Suppl.651. 



SILK-TOP PALMETTO. 



Semi-tropical Florida, southern keys from Bahia Honda to Long's Key ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, 9 meters in height with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.10 meter in diameter, or in pine-barren soil 

 often low and stemless (T. Garberi). 



Wood light, soft; fibro-vasoi\lar bundles small, hard, not conspicuous; color, light brown; specific gravity, 

 0.5991; ash, 3.99; the trunk used in making sponge- and turtle-crawls. 



