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had been removed. As late as December 1919, on upper Mate- 
cumbe Key, we found a plantation of young ‘‘royal-palms,’’ 
really hog- cabbage palms, plants not long previously brought 
from Long Key.! 
However, before daa iat the species extinct in the ham- 
mocks of Long Key we will make another search for specimens 
at the earliest ce aa 
The demand for royal-paims seems to have been greater than 
the supply for some time past, for several years ago one or more 
cargoes of well grown trees of the hog-cabbage palm were brought 
from the Bahamas, where the plant is plentiful on some ead 
and sold to the inhabitants of Miami for the royal-pa 
On the day of our arrival at Long Key we searched the ham- 
mock until dusk, when we moved the ‘Barbee 
exploring the most elevated islands of the Florida Reef— 
Umbrella Key and Plantation Key 
As the day continued stormy, we moved northeastward as 
far as Pumpkin Key and in the lee of it we anchored for the 
night. The following forenoon was devoted to hammocks of 
! Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 22: 214. 1921. 
