PALMACE2E.
Sabal Palmetto. Cabbage Palmetto. Coast of North Carolina and southwa, d. The well known Palmetto tree of the Southern States, from North Carolina to Florida. It grows in sandy soil along the coaat, with a atein from twenty to forty feet high. The leavea are five to eight feet long. in the Southern Statea, the wood of this tree, though extremely porous, ia prelerred to any other for wharves, and when constantly under x ater ie Imost imperishable, but when exposed to be alternately wet mid dry, in the flowing and ebbing of the tide, it decaya aa rapidly as other wood.
Brahea Gnadalupe Palm. Gnadalupe Island.
Gu ,dalupe island ia off the coast of Lower California, 200 niiles from San Diego. It is about twenty-six nines long by ten wide. It is owned by a chartered American com pany for the raising of Angora goms. On the island there is a palm foreet, of this speciea, of (levers' thousand acres in extent. They grow from twelve to twenty feet high, aud nave a diameter of mink of eight to fifteen inches. The frnit is about the size of pinm, bangiug in clusters, like "(rapes, two feet long, vreighing from thirty to forty pounds, growing from one to four bunches to a tree. The
fruit is eagerly eaten by goats.
Pritchardla filamentosa. California Palm. Southern California, This palm has been in cultivation to some extent for several yeara, both in Europe and in this country, under the name of Brahea jilamentosa. It has recently been decided to belong to a different _genus, (Pritchard/a). It grows on rocky canons near San Felipe, some seventy-five milea northeast of San Diego, Cal. It grows to the height of fifty feet. The fruit is small, (as large as peas,) black, and pulpy Thongh containing little nourishment, they are used aa food by the Indians.
Thrinax parvijlora. Silver Palmetto. Sonth Florida. This p lm w lound hat fall by Dr. Chapruao in south Florida. Ti.e stem is rarely aix inches in diameter, yet they att in a height of thirty to forty feet. It occurs fit st at Cape Romans and ia found sparingly on the inainland sonthward. It is more common ou the keys, Mit I never heard of it before. (Chapman.) The wood ia quite denae; the berries white.