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Dr. Baldwin was right. The dwarf-palmetto is a beautiful 
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disfigured ae Rae pa artly ea n by cattle, and in t old days 
ay 
h m ofte ny with 
needle-palm (Rhapidophyllum Hystrix), The contrasts be- 
ween th OS: e the 
s n 
The origin of the dwarf-palmetto is obscure. It forms a 
Its leaves have a very short midrib or rachis, campared with 
engaging in placer gold mining for about a year. Returning east by way 
Panama and ‘Ne ew | Orleans, fhe: lived RA i in Ohio and Indiana, aon in 
ce. usiness and began the study of m 
In 1857 he spent ered poe in “Mexico, i in the vicinity of arn peer 
of Orizaba, an that year established himself as a pharmacist 
at Mobile, Alabama, which was his home for more than forty years. He 
devoted much time peer ai this period to the collection and study of 
i i ire time to this w 
e ho: papers; 
work, the ‘Plant life of Alabama,’’ appeared Boos after his death, which 
Dears d ae Asheville, North Carolina, 7 July ‘gol. His private herbarium 
of the Alabama Geological Survey, built up under his guidance, is known 
may as the Charles Mohr Herbarium.—J. H. B. 
® Contributions .from the U. S. National Herbarium 6: 423. I9goI. 
