JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XXIII May-June, 1922 No. 269-270 
THE SAW-CABBAGE PALM 
Tus History AND DISTRIBUTION OF PAUROTIS WRIGHTIL 
With Plates 271—273. 
Palms have always been interesting, even oe plants; 
and aa gh they may be readily recognized even by those 
with the least technical knowledge concerning ee they are, 
nevertheless, of a vast variety. 
The United States is merely on the northern edge of the 
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geographic range of the palms of the New World. Yet, south 
of the latitude of Cape Hatteras on the Atlantic coast and the 
San Bernardino district in California—the northern outposts 
of the American palm habitats—not less than fourteen well 
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They largely prefer the lowlands. Some of these species are 
widely kanes geographically: paige: pa eaicee to 
beyon 
They favor the east. One species alone occurs naturally on 
the Pacific side of the continent, while the other thirteen, except 
3) les, are restricted in their distribution to the and 
Atlantic Coast lain mong these blue-stem (Sabal 
Adansonit) the needle-palm (Rhapidophyllum Hystrix), 
ranges a short distance into the Piedmont. Those species, in 
the Coastal Plain north of southern peninsular Florida, are more 
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