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It remained for a resident of South Carolina formally to de- 
scribe and publish the cabbage-tree. The name of Thomas 
alter’ a Bs 
with i n_ his 
alter r prints, “Corypha Palmetto 2. ee porn medio 
About twenty- ie vere later, William mee writing, in 
wo of his conbae in Georgia and Florida 
The Cha: Foye Falmer is an elegan - ae nt,—attaining, 
in Georgia, fot or fifty feet; and all its valuable 
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able, more sweet and aeieu a cabbage; from which it 
diameter, and two feet in length. It may be eaten raw, but 
when boiled, and dressed in butter, ofords a attiiioue and 
very ete article of diet 
Thereafter references to a then unique plant of the flora 
of the United States became more numerous. One of the more 
e reprint was issued from the office of The Florida Mirror, Fernandina, 
ida, 1881 
1Thomas Walter, who was born in Hampshire, England, about 
now a forest wilderness. The British National Museum contains a collection 
of plants made by Walter, presumably several years before the publication 
i _ HB. 
ee Caroliniana. 1788. 
illiam Baldwin was born in Newlin township, Chester County, Penn- 
sania 29 March 1779 he ee ee as S surgeon on a merchant vessel 
1805, and received h 14 niversi 
in 1807. From 1812 to 1818 he was a surgeon in the United States navy 
of the time stationed in Georgia or Florida. Appointed surgeon an 
ane to Long’s expedition up the Missouri, he died at Franklin, Missouri, 
1 September 1819 
* Reliquiae Baldwinianae ven 1843. 
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