JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XXIII November, 1922 No. 275 
THE BLUE-STEM —SABAL MINOR 
With plate 280 
t is an ae fact that this, the most humble of our 
the first one to te botanically named and described. On ac- 
it did not get such extensive recognition as its showier relatives: in 
pe. 
Perhaps the earliest definite references to this dwarf-palmetto 
occur in a work which appeared in 1765, under the following 
title: 
“Aw Account oF East FLORIDA; WITH A JOURNAL KEPT BY 
JoHN BarTRAM, OF PHILADELPHIA, BOTANIST TO HIS MAJESTY 
FOR THE FLonmas, UPON A JOURNEY FROM St. AUGUSTINE UP 
TO THE RIVER St. Jouns. LONDON 1765.” 
“Chamaerops humilis Linn. Spec. 1657—-Dwarf- saan 
the 
judged to bea anes kind henween the sand and the swamp.’ 
the small palmetto or chamaerops yields a 
small white ‘bud no “larget than one’s oe which is eaten by 
men, bears, and horses in case of g eed; 
; we camped on a pa banka on the back 
of w. hich was a and dwarf- anes on chamaerops; 
here we cooked a fine mess of palm-cabbag: 
e three quoted paragraphs are from the above cited work by William 
Stork, pages 7 (reprint a 20 (reprint 43), 23 (reprint 45), eas 
The reprint was issued from the office of The Florida Mirror, Fernand: 
Florida, 1881, 
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