Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . tto is pretty fully illustrated by Mr. W. B. Hemsley in the voyageof the Challenger, Botany, i, p. 70, plates vi to ix, 1885. The swamp variety isalso figured in the Garden and Forest, vol. iv, July, 1891, pp. 302, 307. Trans. Conn. Acad., Yol. XI. 38 May, 1902. 594 A. -El Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. Although much like the Palmetto of the southern United States,it differs in several imjjortant particulars. It grows larger; its fruitis larger, more abundant, succulent, and edible ; it is blackish incolor, and about as large as a la
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . tto is pretty fully illustrated by Mr. W. B. Hemsley in the voyageof the Challenger, Botany, i, p. 70, plates vi to ix, 1885. The swamp variety isalso figured in the Garden and Forest, vol. iv, July, 1891, pp. 302, 307. Trans. Conn. Acad., Yol. XI. 38 May, 1902. 594 A. -El Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. Although much like the Palmetto of the southern United States,it differs in several imjjortant particulars. It grows larger; its fruitis larger, more abundant, succulent, and edible ; it is blackish incolor, and about as large as a large cherry. Sometimes the clustersof berries are four feet long, and contain a large number of berries. Full grown palmettoes, even now, may become fifty feet high,with a spreading crown of leaves twenty-five to thirty feet larger leaves may have a fan or blade eight feet or more longand nearly as wide, supported on a petiole or stem six to ten feetlong. But most of those now growing are comparatively young,and mostly less than twenty feet Figure 39.—Bermuda Palmetto, moonlight effect. Governor Lefroy, in 18*77 (Memorials, ii, p. VO, note), said thatone then growing in the Pembroke Marsh was fifty-three feet high,with a clear trunk forty-seven feet high, to the lowest leaves. When growing in good soil in open land the trunk is sometimesthree to four feet in circumference, and usually not more than twentyto twentj^-five feet high, to the leaves. In the marshes it growstaller and moie slender, the circumference seldom being over twenty-four to thirty inches. In dry places the trunk is irregular, withlarger and smaller portions, varying according to the degree of dry-ness of different summers. The rays of the fan-like leaves run outinto long, slender, flexible, drooping tips, when fully mature. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 595 In winter, most of the older leaves turn j^ellow and die, and theyare often much damaged by the violent winds, especially when
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