. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of 'Beagle,' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy. alm trees, growing amidstthe common branching kinds, never failsto give the scene an intertropical the woods were ornamented by theCabbage Palm—one of the most beautifulof its family. With a stem so narrowthat it might be clasped with the twohands, it waves its elegant head at theheight of forty or fifty feet above theground. The woody creepers, themselvescovered by other creepers, were of greatthicknes
. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of 'Beagle,' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy. alm trees, growing amidstthe common branching kinds, never failsto give the scene an intertropical the woods were ornamented by theCabbage Palm—one of the most beautifulof its family. With a stem so narrowthat it might be clasped with the twohands, it waves its elegant head at theheight of forty or fifty feet above theground. The woody creepers, themselvescovered by other creepers, were of greatthickness : some which I measured weretwo feet in circumference. Many of theolder trees presented a very curiousappearance from the tresses of a lianahanging from their boughs, and resemblingbundles of hay. If the eye was turnedm v from the world of foliage above, to the J^IM ^ n ground beneath, it was attracted by theextreme elegance of the leaves of the fernsand mimosae. The latter, in some parts, covered the surface with a brushwood only a few inches high. In walking across these thick beds of mimosae, a broad track was marked by the change of shade, produced by the drooping. S&e* CABBAGE PALM. DEPARTURE FROM SOCftGO 27
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