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palm, described and discussed by ony Miller,! was associated 
it Sar! 
Under the heading of Caen. ae said: ‘The s 
i t i it 
er 
sides. When t aoe are cld their leaves are three or four 
eet long, ome of these plants have put out slender 
aoe of adie sea in England, which were too imperfect to 
form a description. 
“This sort rises freely from < which may easily be pro- 
noe from the islands in Ameri 
received seeds a ‘Cilina ek a Dwarf Palm, 
ike 
the Jamaican and the mainland plants were the same e 
did say that the fruits were alike, but the berries of many palms 
look similar. 
It appears that nearly a century eats | Persoon pub- 
lished the binomia) Sabal minor before that name was taken 
up by Charles Mohr‘ in American aaa free 
2 "Philip Miller was born in 1691, probably at Chelsea, London, where his 
nrg eeairecs ee suct gene his father in this office i in 1722 
years. a kee 
Gardener’s rea A ia ttaes and his ‘Figures of plants” (1755- 
2 Silva of North America 10 7 
’ The ner’s Dictionary, Ed. 8: No. 2. 1768. 
4 Charles Theodore Mohr was born 28 December 1824, at Esslingen, Wiirt- 
temberg, where his ee ae a pngecniiail is are cals. His interest 
in botany began early; i s wit! h Kappler in South 
America, collecting rae in Sur rinam. In 148 e left Germany for the 
United States, and in the summer of 1849 crossed ee plains to California, 
