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extensive and complete descriptions was by F A. Michaux! 
who was a particularly interested student of t! rls trees of 
i his Rae 7 a 
spreads to the extremity of East Florida, and probably encircles 
the Gulf of Mexico; I have no doubt tha t it exists also in Cuba 
al slands; i ich i 
“Fart south the Cabbage Tree is not eondned as in the 
United States, to the immediate vicinity of the sea; on is river 
St. John, in Florida, a few miles above Lake George, I caused 
two a to be felled at the distance of 40 or 50 miles from the 
shor 
* * * 
“The base of the undisclosed bundle of leaves is white, com- 
pact and tender; it is eaten ilk oil and vinegar, ae Racin 
the artichoke and cabbage in taste, whence is derived the 
of Cabbage Tree. But - 0 destroy a oe nie has cae 
acentury in growing, t ur oO} 
unces of a substance 
angois André Michaux was born 16 August 1770, at Versailles, Fran 
s 0 
estate Vauréal, near Pontoise, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, 23 October 
1855.—J. 
2 The North American Sylva 3: 1-3. 1819. 
