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ving specimens of the dwarf-palmetto, as this palm is also 
aie found their way to Europe abou middle of the 
eighteenth ce Plants or seeds ma’ e been sent across 
the Atlantic from the southern states by Mark Catesby, Thomas 
r B ere are ni ny prominent 
and described it in the third volume of the s Botanicus 
Vindobonensis, in 1 he description ae m p 
eight of nd a colored pl s ee t. Jac- 
of the specimen Jacquin says: 
“Th 
Isewhere first i r before 1773 in the 
Imperial Schéenbrunn Garden, cultivated there by th per- 
intendent Richard de an excellent gardener an 
companion at one time on my American journey for the purpose 
2 
ozen years later the plade was named again, this time in 
America. Thomas Walter? named it Corphya pumila in his 
1 Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin belonged to a wealthy Dutch family of French 
origin, and was born at Leyden, 16 February 1727. He studied at Antwerp, 
Louvain, Leyden ; _ Paris, and in 1752 went to Nienna to complete his 
Francis I 
commissioned him to conduct an expe edition to tropical America on 
natural history museum of Vienna. He set sail in January 1755, and did 
F : ‘ 
and portions of the north coast of South vents After spending several 
enn: essor 
and chemistry in the university. He retired from his professorship in 1796, 
: conti , 
at the age of ninety, at Vienna, 26 October 1817.—John Hendley Barnhart. 
2Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis 3: 8. pl. 8. 1776. 
§Thomas Walter was born in England about 1740, and settled in South 
Carolina as a planter i ly life. His “Flora caroliniana” (1788) is astonish_ 
