JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vol. XXTV August, 1923 No. 284 
THE CABBAGE-TREE—SABAL PALMETTO 
Not one of our native palms was playa d by Linnaeus.! 
the es Aiea of the United States was botanically named. 
eu reference to the cabbage-tree, perhaps unknown 
D IN TIMES OF GREATEST DIFFICULTY, AND 
paved DANGER, EVIDENCED IN THE REMA BLE DELIVER- 
E OF ROBERT , wirH Divers PERSONS, FROM THE 
pone WAVES OF THE SEA, AMONGST WHICH THEY SuF- 
nnaeus was born 13/14 May 1707, at einer Sméland, Sweden. 
n 
the next few years visited various parts of Sweden, Denma k, G ny, 
Holland and En gland. Int 735 he received the degree of doctor of medicine 
in Holland is | t was while 
there that. he ae details of his artificial “sexual system” of plant 
lassification, whi made his reputation Id-wide, and was used 
exclusively by ay ae ee for almost a hundred In 1738 
e returned to Sweden, EC practising physician in Stockholm; 
from 1741 he was a aie in the university at la, w! remained 
is death, m bo: 
a ni a and zoological he most ¢ famous i is — ‘Species Plantarum,’ ” 1753, 
aan HENDLEY BaRNHART. 
