It 
sc namar re oe! is found Bone with the preceding 
ichi 
[Sabal A , with the exception 
of its singular spines. It was eases by the late Mr. John 
Fraser, about sixteen yea o, near the city of Savannah.'’6 
n 1817, Stephen Elliott? ‘printed the yan note in his 
f Sout 
: I s first noticed by the la r. Pace The 
leav co or Earonas attain me heights of four {9 five feet. It is 
the thorns, . which grow from 
e root, eae nag with the icone: It is found in rich, 
clayey soils, alon e margins of swamps, and from its peculiar 
In the following year Thomas Nuttall,! having ehscered a 
ale published a note concerning it as follows, at the sa 
me transferring it to the genus Sabal, 
in 1807. From 1812 to , he was a lee in the United States navy, 
most of the fan statio aie in Georgia or Florida. Appointed surgeon and 
botanist to Long eee up the Missouri, ae died at Franklin, Nose 
1 September noo H.B. 
® Reliquiae Baldwinianae 344. 1843. ae in 1816.) 
7 Stephen Elliott was born 11 November 1771, at Beaufort, South Carolina. 
He was a graduate of Yale College (1791), and esa in the histor 
of South Carolina the ach Legislature and 
as eg of the State Bank for nearly ae ye He was the author 
of the r sie le ae runner ate by hu ima “aketch of the botany 
£S th fl 4 
treas He died at Charleston, 28 March 
e367 “His herbarium i is now in the custody of the Charleston Museum. 
% John Fraser was born in 1750, at Tomnacloich, ee Scotland, 
About 1770 he settled in London, engaging in business at Chelsea. He was 
for years one of the most famous European collectors of anaes seeds 
diving vl 4. Meraundiand dipine the Revoliak dint } 
Uni 1 Cuba after its close, crossing the At! 
de th F 
quest between 1780 and 1810 H 1 i most if not all 
fe 
“11 
of the few American botanists of that day,a the publi- 
Iter's aes caroliniana.’ i is believed that some of the 
from 1799 to 
ae states pone his father’s ein which occurred at Chelsea, 26 April 
81 .H.B. 
"Bot S.C. & Ga. 1: 
© Thomas Nuttail was Bae uary 1786, at Long Preston, BGs ir Settle, 
Yorkshire. He became a fea printer 
