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priety be called the porcupine palm, the specific name and its 
armature suggesting this. A single small specimen of this is in 
the collections 
oyal pala Roystonea regia, will be found in the palm 
house in two large specimens. These are just beginning to make 
the trunk which is so characteristic in their native wilds of this 
stately palm. This species is said to occur throughout the West 
Indies and in Central America, in addition to its occurrence in 
Florida. There is at present some doubt as to whether the forms 
occurring in this wide area are all the same, or whether they are 
in fact distinct species. 
The palm of most interest, and the rarest of all growing in 
ae is Pseudophoentx Sargentit, known definitely only from 
Elliott’s and Long Keys. t the former locality it is all but 
meme aa the clearing of the land there for pine-apple cul- 
ture, and the transplanting of specimens to Miami, some thirty 
miles distant, for decorative purposes, having this result. I be- 
lieve but a single specimen marks the place where many formerly 
grew. A gentleman at Miami, who had several of these growing 
on his place which he had brought from Elliott's Key, kindly 
presented one to the garden, and this was moved in the fall of 
1901. It did not recover from the check it received in trans- 
plantal for some time, but is now sending out new leaves and 
gives promise of really becoming active. It now has five healthy 
leaves. Our specimen is about twenty feet tall, The genus 
Pseudophoenix was founded by the late Hermann Wendland, that 
great student of the palms at Herrenhausen, in Hannover, Ger- 
many, the name referring probably to the resemblance of the 
leaves to those of the date palm. 
Of the cocoanut palm, Cocos nucifera, of which mention has 
already been made, two specimens are in the collection from 
Florida. This is a difficult palm to cultivate; it seems to miss 
the salt air and the washing of its roots by the salt water, for it 
does best and grows to its greatest perfection along the seashore. 
It is greatly desired to secure good living specimens and seed 
of Thrinax Keyensis and Serenoa arborescens, to complete our 
living collection of palms from Florida. We have but single 
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