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as by that time transferre e genus Acoelorraphe. 1 ds 
“An additional station for Acoelorraphe arborescens is at th 
ead of East River, it a ay, where it was collected 
y A. A. Eaton on March 22, 1905, and by J. B. Ellis in June and 
Les 1908.”” 
Just twenty years after the discovery of Serenoa arborescens, 
1 1907, John J. Soar and Marion Soar, while on a plant 
unting excursion, found their way into a large bay, etna 
ill nameless, lying east of Maderia Bay at the southern e 
ri 
ie Andros, Cubans, and Floridan plants represented not only 
le genus, but one species. 
The problem was taken up by Odoardo Beccari,5 who re- 
1 Trees and Shrubs 2: 
u - ee under ‘‘ Bucaneer- pe HY sual of the New York Botanical Garden 
3-43. 1922. 
5 ee androsana O. F. Cook, Mem. Torrey Club & 1902. 
*See under ‘‘Bucaneer-palm,” Journal of the New York ose) Garden 
: 39. 1922. Mrs. Northrop oe her life at Mt. Riga, New York, near 
2 state lines of Massachusetts and Connecticut, May 6, 1922, when the 
tomobile in which she was ane: was struck by a train. 
§ Odoardo Beccari, born at Florence, Italy, November 19, 1843, was edu- 
ted at Lucca, Pisa, and Bologna. In early life, from 1865 to 1878, he 
t h time in botanical exploration, visiting for that purpose Abyssinia, 
