. 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. 136 The Palmetto III. THE PALMETTO GENUS SABAL ADANSON Species Sabal Palmetto (Walter) Roemer and Schultes Corypha Palmetto Walter. Chammrops Palmetto Michaux Inodes Palmetto O. F. Cook. Inodes Schwarzii O. F. Cook ABAL consists of five or more closely related species, natives of the southern United States, Bermuda, the West Indies, Mexico, and northern South America; they are readily known by the fiber-like threads which
. 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. 136 The Palmetto III. THE PALMETTO GENUS SABAL ADANSON Species Sabal Palmetto (Walter) Roemer and Schultes Corypha Palmetto Walter. Chammrops Palmetto Michaux Inodes Palmetto O. F. Cook. Inodes Schwarzii O. F. Cook ABAL consists of five or more closely related species, natives of the southern United States, Bermuda, the West Indies, Mexico, and northern South America; they are readily known by the fiber-like threads which separate and droop from the margins of the leaf-seg- ments, the leaves being palmately cleft with a short leaf-axis, which gradually tapers into the blade, and by the clusters of round, black globose fruits. Sabal Palmetto grows in dry or wet situations from eastern North Carolina to Florida, throughout the Bahamas and on Cuba; its habitat varies, indeed, from sand-dunes to swamps, sometimes even in flowing water, but it is largest and most abundant on river-banks. The trunk attains a maximum height of about 20 meters with a diameter up to 7 decime- ters, but it often flowers freely in southern Florida when not more than 4 meters high. The leaves are meters broad, or less, often rather wider than long, their numerous narrow segments 2-cleft at the apex and more or less drooping, rather dull green; the leaf-stalks are stout, often as long as the blades, concave on the upper side, with sharp edges. The numerous Fig. 103. - Palmetto. ^^^^i., perfect, nearly stalkless flowers are spicate on the ultimate divisions of the spreading or drooping panicles, which are borne among the leaves and either shorter or longer than them; the main branches of the panicles are subtended by tubular bracts and flattened; the cup-shaped calyx is unequally 3-lobed, its lobes obtuse, about i mm. long; the 3 nearly white petals are oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm. long, shghtly united at the
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