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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Thrinax. Allied to the former. All 
beautiful and exceedingly elegant 
American fan-leaved palms of rather 
small size and slow growth, succeeding 
finely in South Florida, particulailv 
along the East Coast from Palm Beach 
southward. Of this genus about io 
species are known to science, six of 
them occuring wild in Florida. 
Thrinax Florid ana, Sargent, a slen¬ 
der palm, becoming about 30 feet tall 
and the trunk about six inches in diam¬ 
eter. The leaves are beautiful yellow¬ 
ish-green and lustrous above, silvery- 
white beneath. The flowers are pun¬ 
gent aromatic. It naturally grows 011 
the sandy shores and coral-ridges of 
South Florida and the Keys. 
Thrinax microcar pa, Sargent, also in 
dry coral soil of the same region, has 
leaves about three feet in diameter, 
pale green above and glaucous under¬ 
neath. It grows about 35 feet high. 
Also a very elegant palm. 
Thrinax Kcyensis, Sargent. In its 
native haunts, the Florida Keys, this 
fine species attains a height of about 30 
feet, “raised on a base of matted roots 
sometimes about one meter high/” 
Leaves longer than broad, about three 
feet in diameter, glossy yellowish- 
green above, and bluish-green and 
more -or less covered with silvery- 
white hairs beneath. Flowers faintly 
aromatic. 
Thrinax Garberi, Chapin. (Coccc- 
thrinax Garberi Sargent) common on 
dry coral ridges along Biscayne Bay. 
Almost stemless, with yellowish-green 
leaves, silvery underneath. 
Thrinax argentea Chapin, (Cocothri 
nax jucunda, Sargent). Also occurring 
on dry coral ridges of South Florida. 
Stem from 10 to 25 feet high. The 
crown consists of numerous yellowish- 
green, glossy leaves, glaucous on the 
underside. One of the most beautiful 
species of the genus, being also com¬ 
mon in the West Indies. These are all 
hardy in South Florida and are 
easily grown. There are very fine 
West Indian species which will do 
equally well where the others find 
soil and climate congenial. The fol¬ 
lowing are offered by Mr. E. N. Rea- 
soner, of Oneco, Fla.: Thrinax Bar- 
badensis, Lodd. from Barbadoes, “one 
of the handsomest of all small fan 
palms. Each specimen carries a full 
head of fine leaves and is always a fine 
object.” Never seems to grow tall. 
Thrinax excelsa, Lodd. from Jamaica 
and Thr. parviflora Swz., from the Ba¬ 
hamas. Both are very elegant species, 
the last named attaining a height of 10 
to 20 feet. Thrinax Morrisii Wendl., 
a native of Anguilla, is a dwarf, never 
over two and one-half feet tall in its 
native state. Very beautiful. Mr. C. 
T. Simpson, of Little River on Bis¬ 
cayne Bay, has all these species in cul¬ 
tivation and he writes that they are 
doing finely. 
Oreo do xa. The Royal Palms. “The 
American Palms,” writes Dr. Berthold 
Seemann, alluding* to the Oredoxas, 
“may be said, to have been anxious to 
appear to the best advantage, when 
they were about to form the ac¬ 
quaintance of those who were about 
to seek a new world in the west. They 
placed on the very threshold of their 
native country several representatives, 
which, in elegance and majesty of form 
