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mmon name—hog- cabbage palm—is in reference to 
ud, in 
ag 
favor as a vegetable in some parts of the hea ‘United 
States. 
The hog-cabbage palm, or “hog-palmetto,”’ as it is also called, 
Hy 
is not in ly called royal-palm, but really has no close 
morphological relationship to the genus Roystonea. It has i 
closest relativ e Indies of both hemispheres, in Central 
merica, and in northern South ante rica. 
the year 1686, rather than 1886, as the year when it was firs 
found in Florida. 
About midway between the discovery of America and the 
present time, or in other words near the beginning of the eight- 
eenth century, Charles Plumier* was in Hispaniola—the island 
s brevet major of volunteers. For nearly fifty 
of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, at Bias Plain, Mass- 
ae et His 1 ma ny sumptuous Plea de hee to ages oree and the 
HI trees and r his guidance 
e Arboretum of which he has so ae ie ieee ic brought him 
sue fame.—John Hendley Barnhar 
* Charles Plumier was born at einige France, April 20, 1646. At he 
age of 16 he entered the order of Minims, and while pi pursuing his studies at 
Rome became interested in botany, are was ioructed nethat science by 
Paclo Boccone. From Ro: — he Went to Ane and whil plored south 
ern much of the ti 1 
with oe sometimes with the already ae uneeah: In 1689 he 
was chosen by Joseph Donat Surian to accompan’ m as artist, during his 
een ees ion of the French possessions in Ae ‘West Indies, and made 
two voyages during he years 1689- pon Surian’s death in 1691, he 
urin; : 
followed him as “botanist to the king,’’ and made a third voyage to the West 
Indies in 1696-97. He was starting upon a fourth voyage to America when, 
November 20, 1704, he died at Cadiz, Spain. Plumier prepared much manu- 
