JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XNITI March, 1922 No. 267 
THE BUCANEER-PALM 
History AND DISTRIBUTION OF PSEUDOPHOENIX 
With Plates 269 and 270 
Florida is a region where endemic plants are not rare, many 
well-known groups being partly or wholly represented by 
known t 
area; moreover, there are endemic genera. Not many years 
ago the cane family in that State was credited with an endemic 
monotypic genus 
In 1886 os was aroused among botanists when a palm 
constituting a new genus, found in the hammocks of Elliott's s 
common parlance the hog-cabbage palm, was one o is cate- 
gory, and for a long time it was considered to be confined 
to two islands of the Florida Reef. 
name Pseudophoenix—talse-phoenix — refers to the re- 
Phoenix, to which the historic date-palm belongs. The specific 
name mentioned above in is honor of Charles Sprague Sargent* 
the eee of the plant on Elliott’s Key 
Charles Sprague Sargent was born at Boston, Massachusetts, April 24, 
1841. Shortly after his graduation at Ha erver ’ _ entered the army and 
served as an officer for f the Civil War, leaving th i 
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