chamaerops

The central elevated plain is encircled by a low and narrow zone, where the chamaerops, the date-tree, the sugar-cane, the banana, and a number of plants common to Spain and the north of Africa, vegetate on several spots, without suffering from the rigours of winter.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

I have seen, it is true, trees of this family, in the forests of the Orinoco, spreading a tufted foliage; but we cannot say much for the shade of the palm-tree of the llanos, the palma de cobija, * which has but a few folded and palmate leaves, like those of the chamaerops, and of which the lower-most are constantly withered.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The chamaerops and the date-tree flourish in the fertile plains of Murviedro, on the coasts of Genoa, and in Provence, near Antibes, between the thirty-ninth and forty-fourth degrees of latitude; a few trees of the latter species, planted within the walls of the city of Rome, resist even the cold of 2. 5° below freezing point.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

* It is, like the chamaerops of the basin of the Mediterranean, a true palm-tree of the coast.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

This must be an exotic, for although the lower half of the Rio Bravo is within the zone of the palms, the species that grow so far north are fan-palms (_chamaerops_ and _sabal_).

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

The beautiful palmetto (_chamaerops_) lifted its fan-like branches, as if to screen the earth from the hot sun that poured down upon it, and here and there its singular shapes were shadowed in the water.

The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

The tree-ferns -- the chamaerops, the pandanus, the araucarias -- are modern representatives of past types.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The infant palm is, in fact, the mature chamaerops in miniature; showing that among plants, as among animals -- at least in some instances -- there is a correspondence between the youngest stages of growth in the higher species of a given type, and the earliest introduction of that type on earth.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The modern chamaerops, with its fan-like leaves spreading on one level, stands, with respect to its structure, lower than the palms with pinnate leaves, which belong almost exclusively to our geological age, and have numerous leaflets ranging along either side of a central axis.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The young palms, while their elders tower fifty feet above them, are often not more than two inches high; and to whatever genus they may belong, invariably resemble the chamaerops, -- having their leaves extending fan-like on one plane, instead of being scattered along a central axis, as in the adult tree.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847