. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 134 Silver Thatch Palm. Fig. ioo. — Large-fruited Thatch Pahn. pointed segments cm. wide or less, which have a promi- nent yellowish midrib and thickened margins, and are 2-cleft at the end; their orange- colored ligules are i to 2 cm. long, and pointed; the leaf- stalks are about as long as the blades, broadened at the base to s to 7 cm. wide. The pani- cle of small white flowers is often I meter long, its branches y
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 134 Silver Thatch Palm. Fig. ioo. — Large-fruited Thatch Pahn. pointed segments cm. wide or less, which have a promi- nent yellowish midrib and thickened margins, and are 2-cleft at the end; their orange- colored ligules are i to 2 cm. long, and pointed; the leaf- stalks are about as long as the blades, broadened at the base to s to 7 cm. wide. The pani- cle of small white flowers is often I meter long, its branches yellowish green; the flowers are distinctly stalked, the stalks about 3 mm. long, slender; the fruits are spherical, white, 6 to 9 mm. in diameter, the seed brown 2Lnd shining, the basal cavity large. 11. SILVER THATCH PALM GENUS COCCOTHRINAX SARGENT Species Coccothiinax argentea (Loddiges) Sargent Thrinax argentea Loddiges. Thrinax parviflora Garheri Chapman Coccothrinax Garheri Sargent. Coccothrinax jucunda Sargent HE genus Coccothrinax (Greek, berry thrinax, referring to the fruit, which outwardly resembles a berry) includes several species, natives of southern Florida and the West Indies. It is distinguished readily from Thrinax by this pulpy fruit, which is black when ripe, and by the seed, which has several channels on its surface; the flowers are very similar to those of Thrinax. Coccothrinax argentea, sometimes called Silver-top or Bay-top palmetto, attains a height of 10 meters, with a trunk to 2 dm. in diameter; it is usually much smaller, however, and sometimes makes hardly any trunk at all, the leaves seeming to rise in a tuft from the groimd. The leaves are nearly orbicular, 2 to 7 dm. broad, sometimes a lit- tle longer than broad, palmately cleft to be- pio. loi. —sUver Thatch Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations ma
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