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W. G. Wmght. For copies or abstracts of papers not otherwise 



Mr 



Miss Mary 



Herbarium, Dr. J. N- Rose, of the National Herbarium, and Mr. C. 

 E. Faxon, of the Arnold Arboretum. Dr. Welwood Murray, 

 for many years a resident of Palm Springs, has favored me with some 



palm 



San Bernardino 

 Califokkia 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1848. Emory, W. H., Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leaven- 

 worth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California 103, 104. — Mentions 

 "cabbage palms" seen at Carrizo Creek, Colorado Desert. 



1854. Blake, W. P., Pacific R. R. Report 5:95.— Mentions a palm seen at 

 Hot Springs, Colorado Desert. 



1861. Cooper, J. G., Smithsonian Report 1860:442. — Refers the Palm Springs 



palms to ^^Brahea dulcis Mart." 



1876. Drude, G., Bot. Zeit, 34:801-807. — A discussion of the relation of plant 

 geography to systematic botany, concluding, among other theses, that not 

 a single genus of palms is common to the Old and the New World. He then 

 refers to a palm found by Roezl "in Nord-Mexico bei Arizona am Rio 

 Colorado," and in cultivation under the name Prichardia fiIa?n€ntosa. This 

 paper is sometimes erroneously quoted as by Wendlaxd. 



1876. Devansaye, Q. de la, Rev. Hort. 48:373, 374.— "Palmiers nouveaux 

 Brahea, Prichardia." 



1876. Vasey, George, Catalogue Forest Trees 38.— Includes Prichardia 



filamentosa Wendl. 

 1876. Watson, S., Proc. Am. Acad. 11:147,— A P^^"^ ^^^^^ ^y Palmer in 



CantiUas Canon, Lower California, is apparently the same as that recently 



introduced in cultivation under the name Brahea filamentosa. 

 1876. Fenzi, E. O., Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 1:116. ^^.—Introduction of Pri- 



chardia filamentosa into European cultivation, and its supposed origin. 

 1876. WiLLLAMS, O., Gard. Chron. 1876:80.— ''Brahea filamentosa in California." 

 1876. Andre, E., HI. Hort. 24:32, 107.— "Le Prichardia filijera Linden." 



1878. PALiiER, Edw., American Naturalist 12:598— Use of palm fruit as food 

 by Cocupah Indians. 



1879. Went)laxd, H., Bot. Zeit. 37:65-68.— "Ueber Brahea oder Prichardia 

 ' filijera Hort." Discusses the generic characters of the palm, describes the 



leaf and fruit, and separates it under the name Washingtonia. 



1880. Watso.v, S., Bot. Cal. 2:211, 485.— Formally characterizes the genus 



Washingtonia and the species W. filijera. 



