38 FOREST-TREES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
PALMACEZ:. 
No. 414. Sabal Palmetto, R. & S.—Cabbage Palmetto.—Coast of Nerth 
Carolina and southward. The well-known Palmetto-tree of the South- 
ern States, from North Carolina to Florida. It grows in sandy soil 
along the coast, with a stem from 20 to 40 feet high. The leaves are 5 
to § feet long. ‘In the Southern States, the wood of this tree, though 
extremely porous, is preferred to any other for wharves,” and when con- 
stantly under water is almost imperishable, but, when exposed to be 
alternately wet and dry in the flowing and ebbing of the tide, it decays 
as rapidly as other wood. 
No. 415. Brahea edulis, Wad.—Guadalupe Palm.—Guadalupe Island. 
Guadalupe Island is off the coast of Lower California, 200 miles from 
San Diego. It is about twenty-six miles long by ten wide. Itis owned 
by a chartered American company for the raising of Angora goats. On 
the island there is a palm-forest, of this species, of several thousand 
acres in extent. ‘They grow from 12 to 20 feet high, and have a diame- 
ter of trunk of 8 tol5inches. The fruit is about the size of a plum, 
hanging in clusters, like grapes, 2 feet long, weighing from 30 to 40 
pounds, growing from one to four bunches to a tree. The fruit is eagerly 
eaten by goats. : 
No. 416. Pritchardia filamentosa, Wend.—California Palm.—Southern 
California. This palm has been in cultivation to some extent for several 
years, both in Europe and in this country, under the name of Brahea 
jfilamentosa. It has recently been decided to belong to a different genus. 
(Pritchardia.) It grows on rocky canons near San Felipe, some seventy- 
five miles northeast of San Diego, California. It grows to the height 
of 50 feet. The fruit is small, (as large as peas,) black, and pulpy. 
Though containing little nourishment, they are used as food by the 
Indians. : 
No. 417. Thrinax parviflora, Sw.—Silver Palmetto.—South Florida. 
This palm was found last fall by Dr. Chapman in South Florida. The 
stem is rarely 6 inches in diameter, yet they attain a height of 30 to 40 
feet. ‘‘It occurs first at Cape Romans and is found sparingly on the 
mainland southward. It is more common on the keys, but I never 
heard of it before.”.—(Chapman.) The wood is quite dense; the berries 
white. 
LILIACEZ. 
No. 418. Yucca brevifolia, Eng.—Desert Yucca.—Arizona and Seuth- 
ern Utah. This singular tree grows in the deserts of Arizona and South- 
ern Utah. It is from 10 to 20 feet high, with a trunk sometimes 10 or 
12 inches in diameter. It is fibrous in all parts, so that the whole plant 
may be converted to paper. 
No. 419. Yucca Treculiana, Carr.—Spanish Bayonet.—Western Texas 
and westward. Sometimes with a stem over 1 foot diameter and 50 
feet high, branching only near the summit, every branch bears a thyrsus 
of flowers 3 to 4 feet high, each consisting of several hundred white 
tleshy flowers, shining like porcelain. The fruit is edible, resembling the 
papaw. The leaves are 2 to 4 feet long, deeply channeled, and pointed 
by a sharp thorn.—(Dr. Lindheimer.) 
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