JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVII October, 1916 No. 202 
ROYAL PALM HAMMOCK 
(witH pLates CLXXIX-CLXXXID 
The two natural divisions of the Everglade Keys in extreme 
southeastern peninsular Florida, the Biscayne pineland and the 
g pi 
the ee el ee is called Royal Palm Hammock.{ It 
also known a radise Key.{ The island received the former 
mentioned name ee re most conspicuous element of the 
vegetation, this consisting 7 scores of royal palms, many o 
which tower above the other 
it township 58 south, range 37 e 
tA hammock, the word eee o a origin,—is nse gro Sah of 
stly us ng shade, in a pine forest or ona 
Prairie. Th i 1 ‘met to Florida and adjacent states. 
For more extensive definitions, see . Ha in Science ‘ —, 
1905; ane Annual ebore _ the Py esos Survey 217. 1911; and 
es 
B 
_# The word | key (cayo) pri the coast in and near 
isk it 1 Pveplace in southern 
Florida, and by i i i lied ts Sian in the Everglades as well as 
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