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are almost identical with those from trees growing wild in the 
vicinity of The New York Botanical Garden. Tallahassee 
represents the most southern station for this form of the persim- 
mon now known to the writer. 
In order to find the needle-palm we had to go westward about 
twelve miles to the swamp of Little River.* On the way we 
crossed the Ocklocknee River and its swamp, but not a plant 
e we 
this part of northern Florida. The geological formation of the 
land is such that the erosion of the sand and clay results in steep, 
often abrupt, banks on the eastern side and in gently sloping 
banks on the western side. 
After descending the steep hills of the eastern bank of Little 
ml. nt. 
sists of myriads of elongate, slender, rigid needles, mostly 10-18 
inches long, which project from the le af-sheaths, into which they 
are woven near their bases. The needle-palm is one of our rarer 
kinds of palm, and, unlike all of our fifteen native species except 
the blue-stem, it occurs in a few localities in aia and in 
Alabama further inland than the limits of the coastal plain. In 
ing accomplished all that was possible under the circumstances, 
we retraced our course towards Tallahassee. The lowering tem- 
* Not to be confused with Little River of southern Florida. 
