palmettoes

They flourished in the swampy, jungle like lowlands of Parris Island, where palmettoes and nut grass grew in abundance.

The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser Morris, W. R. 1971

The palmettoes (_Sabal_ and _Chamærops_) are the best known.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Then he had a glimpse of a dun colored object flitting through the scrub palmettoes under the pines.

Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne

Below, the sandy soil, scantly covered with coarse grass, bristles with sharp palmettoes and aloes; all the vegetation is stiff, shining, semi-tropical, with nothing soft or delicate in its texture.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

They went to Savannah, to the live-oaks and palmettoes and quiet old squares.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

Out of the region of magnolias, palmettoes and live-oaks you pass into the region of pines, and out of the region of pines into that of maples and elms.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

It is a wonderful place, that jungle, with its tangled trunks and vines and its green foliage swimming in sifted sunlight; with its palms, palmettoes, ferns, and climbing morning-glories, its banana trees, gnarled rubber banyans, and wild mangoes -- which are like trees growing upside down, digging their spreading branches into the ground.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

The miles of palmettoes, with leaves glittering like racks of bared cutlasses in the sun, the miles of dark swamp, in which the cypresses seem to wade like dismal club-footed men, the miles of live-oak strung with their sad tattered curtains of

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

Oxydendrum arboreum oyster plant oyster-shell scale pæonia see: peony palmettoes palms. palms for South. pampas-grass. pandanus.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Beyond that were the low shore and the dark wood of pines and the shining leaves of the palmettoes like a lake spattered with the light -- split by their needle points.

The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901