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PARISH— THE GENUS WASHINGTONIA 



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FRUIT AND SEED OF WASHINGTONIA 



The fruit of Washingtonia is a small oblong drupe, black at 

 maturity, with a thin, sweetish, rather dry pulp. The seed is brown, 

 oblong to oblong-ovate, flattened, excavated or somewhat wrinkled 

 on the raphal face. The first of these raphal characters seems to 

 belong to W. filijera and its variety microsperma, the second to W. 



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W. McLeod, Arlingti 



filifera rohusta and W. sonorae, and the last to W. gracilis. To de- 

 termine whether these characters are constant requires the study of 

 extensive series of authentic seeds from varied sources. For this the 

 material is not at hand. Fig. 12, for which I am indebted to Dr. 

 Beccari, represents the seed as at present understood. 



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additional notes on w. filifera robusta 



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Wendland's Washingtonia rohusta, long considered an obscure 

 if not, indeed, a mvthiral tree, is in realitv the one with which we have 



