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at present called Haiti or Santo Domingo. He wrote exten- 
sively on the flora of tropical America, where he traveled, and 
: d : : 
Palmarum, volume Rs e, page seventy-five, in a part published 
September 1, 
Another odd 
of the Antilles, Shick Plumier has very w eh described a the 
name ‘date and beari 
shape of a cylinder or of 2 a indle, but grows upwards into a 
, but rather pithy 
of sugary Moreover, ae sc a when it pees a certain 
tage of maturity suddenly grows up from p into a smooth 
a ch wer cylinder, by whose development the cro 
of leaves is suddenly lifted It is clear whether this 
pal ak s cylinder by a single change, in wh ase you 
en easily imagine it to en Sacre To ner Metroxylon, or by 
ouble change, which i kely, so that it develops a 
evlinder gradually and thie Sova Laine into the form o 
lub. 
“ On carr of its novelty we here transcribe all that Plumier 
says about 
script and many drawings relating to corer plants. A part of his work: 
i mi f 
remains unpublished until this d is hee and many of his draw- 
ings are in Fre ibraries, but there are five voli of the latter in the 
Banksian libra atural history museum in London. He left no 
herbarium o! , but many of his plants are in the herbaria of Surian 
nd Tournefort, both of which are preserved at ran history muse 
in rt t gree studies were chie! and cpa 
John Hendley Barnhart 
