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to the region just referred to above, where he secured seeds 
of tl pal also a few plants; but i not until a 
decade later (1898) that the requisite flowers and fruits were 
forthe were foun source e Cho- 
koloskee River, as will be seen by subsequent quotations. 
Specimens were later sent to Charles S. Sar, t t 
Neither of the geographical designations for the original 
locality of this palm are correct, in other words Serenoa arbor- 
escens was not pimmesiee near the Chokoloskee River nor in 
He joined his brother, Pliny aware Reasoner, in Florida, i in the fall of 1885, 
and although } y three years later Reasoner 
Brothers has continued in use until the sent t He has done much 
collecting of seeds and living plants in ant Florida, has eerie widely 
in the United States, Europe, and t est Indies, and has contributed t 
Bailey’s é 'yclopedia of American Horticulture and Standard eylopelie 
of Horticulture.—J. H. Barnhart. 
1 See under ‘‘Bucaneer-palm,” Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 
23: 33-43. 1922. 
2 Botanical Gazette 27: 92. 1899. 
