CATALOGUE OF FOREST TEEES. 217 



PALMAOE^ 



404. Sabal Palmetto, Loddiges; 



Bcemei & Schult i, Syst. vii, 1487. Croom in Am. Jour. Sci. 1 ser. xxvi, 315. Martins, Hist. Palm, iii, 247. Ennth, Ennm. ill, 247. 

 Spach, Hist. Veg. xii, 107. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 438. Curtis in Kep. Geological Snrv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 64. Wood, CI. Book, 

 666 ; Bot. & Fl. 317. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 38. 



Gorypha Palmetto, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 119. 



Ghamcerops Palmetto, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 206. Michanx f. Hist. Arb.-Am. ii, 186, 1. 10; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. 

 iii, 5, 1. 101. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 490. Nnttall, Genera, i, 231. Elliott, Sk. i,431. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 137. 

 Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 89. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 191. Darby, Bot. S. States, 546. Cooper in Smithsonian Eep. 258. 

 Porcher, Kesonrces, S. Forests, 526. 



CABBAGE TREE. CABBAGE PAXMETTO. 



Smith island, off the mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina, sonth 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. Washingtonia filifera, Wendland, 



: . es. Watson, Bot. CaUfornia, ii, 211, 485. 



! duleiSff Coopei- in Sraithsonian Eep. 1860, 442 [not Martins]. 



Pritchardla fOvn>'>^iosa^ Wendlai .. ' -xxiv, 807. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 38. Fenzi in Bull Soo. Toso. 



Ort. j, 116 4. f .~Palmer i., .* t. 



Brahea Jilaflimiom, Hort. William!-, ic j.on . iroiiiele, 1876, *'. 



i^AM-LV\Jf VAZ.TS.. 



San Bernardino county, California, from the eastern base of the Sau B^raardino ml>anta'n8 to the valley ot 

 the Colorado river. ^~~ -^._^ 



A tree 12 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.05 meter in diameter, forming grovteo . 2.">0 to 5^"" 

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

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



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

 0.5173; ash, 1.89. 



406. Thrinax parviflora, Swartz, 



Prodr. 57; Fl. Ind. Ooo. i, 614. Aiton, 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. Eoemer & Schultes, Syst. vii, 1300. Martins, 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. Oarberi, Chapman in Coulter's Bot. 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 ; flbro-va.scular bundles small, hard, not conspicuous; color, light brown; specific gravity, 

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



