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She pointed to a bunch of tall tropical-looking plants with great spreading leaves and big green-white stalks. "They're called Palmae Christi." "Whut?" "That's Latin. It means 'Hands of Christ," said Hale with reverence. "You see how the leaves are spread out don't they look like hands? "Not much," said June frankly. "What's Latin?"
I have found a much shorter and more easy way, by the advice of the good friends I had in my younger days, to free myself from any such ambition, and to sit still: "Cui sit conditio dulcis sine pulvere palmae:" Horace, Ep., i.
The cuticle began to shed some time between the third and twelfth day, in large sheets, as pictured in the accompanying illustrations. The nails were shed in about four weeks after the acute stage. Crocker had an instance of this nature in a man with tylosis palmae, in which the skin was cast off every autumn, but the process lasted two months.
This produce is triple that of corn, and double that of potatoes in France. This last group of palmae montanae, which rises in the Andes of Guanacas nearly to the limit of perpetual snow, was, I believe, entirely unknown before our travels in America.
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