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r less associated with other palms, such as the cabbage-tree 
(Saba 1 Palmetto), the soe palmetto (Sabal Etonia), and the 
ns). 
In southern Florida seven other palms occur. Some of 
have been well known there for many years, while the discovery 
of others has been comparatively recen nt. 
o be disc 
—is one of our more interesting and rarer palms. Closel 
— with the lower parts of the Lossman’s River limestone 
of the Ten Thousand oe the Cape Sable Region, and the 
pe 
extre ee e e Florida peninsula, it occurs in the 
least accessible parts of a State. And this is perhaps why, 
although thirty years had elapsed since its di n 
ry the 
North American mainland, it was until quite recently so utterly 
misinterprete 
n May, 1887, Pliny Ward Reasoner? during a short vacation 
trip along the lower western coast of Florida, by boat, discovered 
the palm under discussion in the royal palm region or district 
of the eid Romano region. Neither flowers nor fruits were 
then secured. 
n ie fall of the following year, shortly after the death of 
Pliny Reasoner, his brother, E. N. Reasoner*, made a pilgrimage 
1SERENOA REPENS (Bartram) 
rypha repens Bartram, ‘‘frondibus expansis, flabelliformibus, plicati., 
hamaerops ‘serrulata Michx. FI. Bor. . 1: 206. 
Serenoa serrulata Hook; Benth. & Hook, Gen. Pl. 3: pets 1888. 
2Pliny Ward Reasoner was born May 6, 1863, at Princeton, Illinois, 
i e bec: teres 
where he received his education and at an early ag interested in 
botany and horticulture bout 1883 he went to Florida, establishing 
th oyal Palm Nurseries at co, and in 1885 ed a partnership 
with his brother, E. N. Reasoner, under the name r Bros. e 
was horticultural eas in charge of the subtropical exposition at 
Jacksonville, 1887-88, and one of the three Florida commissioners — oe 
Atlant ta exposition of 1888; _ he was becoming w t 
o a contributors o sieeeutt ura literature 
when an attack of yellow fever ees terminated his career, at the early 
age of twenty-five. e died at Manatee, Florida, September 17, 1888. 
i Hendley Barnhart. 
Egbert Norman Reasoner was born at Princeton, Illinois, May 24, 1869. 
