54 Notice of a Plant of the Sabal BlackburmsL, 



" Palms," says our late lamented president, Sir James Ed- 

 ward Smith, "are formed of successive circular crowns of 

 leaves, which spring directly from the root. These leaves and 



their footstalks are furnished with bundles of large sap ves- 

 sels and returning vessels, like the leaves of our trees*' When 

 one circle of them has performed its office, another is formed 



