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has met with failure everywhere, and failure was predicted when 
some thirty specimens were carefully dug, packed and sh sass 
New York in the fall of 1901. These all arrived in goo 
condition, and a number of methods were tried to make a 
take hold, but all without success, not one of the entire consign- 
ment surviving. We are now trying the experiment again with 
four plants secured by Dr. Britton on a trip to that region the 
past spring. It is too soon yet to predict results, but the plants 
are yet alive, and while there is life there is hope. It is a pity 
too that it does not take more kindly to cultivation, for it is a 
charming little species and well worth a place in any collection. 
It seldom attains a height of more than four or five feet, most 
specimens being only two or three feet. The other species, C. 
jucunda, is much larger in pats way, though closely related to 
it f this we have a single specimen which is indicating 
increased vigor by a more eee display of foliage. The genus 
Coccothrinax is separated from Thrinax by its fruit which has 
black flesh and a channeled seed, while in 7hrinax the flesh is 
white and the seed smooth. 
Of Saéal all three are to be found in our collections. Two of 
these, S. glabra (also known as S. Adansonii) and S. megacarpa, 
are dwarf, that is they make no trunk. The former is found al 
the way from South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, and is 
known as the dwarf palmetto or blue stem. e other is confined 
to the southern part of the peninsula of Florida, and is known as 
the scrub palmetto. It was described at one time as S. Evomza, its 
specific name referring to a large area of scrub, many square 
miles in extent, occurring near Altoona, in Lake Co. This scrub 
formation occurs in isolated areas in the pine lands, and is char- 
acterized by a peculiar vegetation, one of the distinctive features 
being this scrub palmetto. In that part of the state it is not 
found outside of the scrub. Later the writer saw it in great 
abundance on the sandy coral ridges around Miami. It hasa 
peculiar twisted rootstock, much resembling the letter S in shape, 
the apex of this traveling along the surface of the ground but 
never rising above it. We have of S. glabra a number of speci- 
mens, and of S. megacarpa a lot of nice seedlings, raised from 
