MAGNOLIACEAE 535 
. MAGNOLIA IL. Shrubs or trees. Leaves deciduous or persistent, 
sometimes very large, scattered or in umbrella-like clusters; blades entire, some- 
times aurieled at the base. Flowers perfect, erect, white. Sepals and petals 
about equal in size, more or less coriaceous. Frui echinate cone of usually 
colored earpels.—About 25 species, North tes and Asiatic—Bays.—The 
trees are ornamental both in flower and in fruit. The fruits are very conspicuous 
when the scarlet seeds dangle from the follicles on invisible threads. 
Leaves persistent; blades coriaceous, gradually or abruptly nee at the base: 
flower-buds silky : petals short and broad. . GRANDIFLORAE. 
Leaves deciduous ; Sees a pape cordate, auriculate, or 
acute at the base: flower-buds tomentose or glabrous: 
: S. 
"fruit con green, often pale beneath: buds Pope 
So URBE branches umbrella-clustered. II. UMBRELLAE. 
Leaf blades glaucous beneath: buds tomentose: fruit-cone 
subglobular, oval or ovoid: leaves of the flowering 
branches not mbes CIusLere d. III. MACROPHYLLAE. 
I. GRANDIFLORAE 
Leaf-blades thick-coriaceous: corolla 1-1.5 dm. long: fruit-cone 
8-12 cm. long, the carpels numerous. 1. M. grandiflora. 
Leaf-blades thin-coriaceous: corolla 3-5 em. long: fruit-cone 3-5 * 
long, the carpels few. 2. M. virginiana. 
II. UMBRELLAE 
Leaf-blades acute at the base. 3. M. tripetala. 
Leaf-blades auricled at the bas 
Leaf-blades elongate- bovis to obovate- AE gradually 
pointed at the apex: stamens 9-12 mm. lon ng. 4. M. Fraseri. 
E rhombic-obovate, abruptly Bu. stamens 4-6 mm. : f 
lon 5. M. pyramidata. 
III. rdc. AE 
Leaves very large, cordate or subcordate at the base, very glau- 
eous beneath: fruit-cone SSODEIOBOSG or eund: ric-ovoid. 
“on mostly = 3 dm. wide: fruit-cone subglobose: seed 
1-14 mm. lon 6. M. macrophylla. 
Corolla BE $4 dm. wide: fruit-cone cylindric-ovoid : seed 
9-10 m 7. M. Ashei. 
M. grandiflora L. Tree, when large with a trunk-diameter of over 2 m 
a dark bark: leaf- blades elliptic, oval, broadly di eu. or ey ovate, 
E E lon ng rown- or rusty- -tomen n 
beneath: flowers very conspicuous, lem 
a petals creamy-white; blades sub 
orbicular to orbicular-obovate, 5-1 
wide: fruit-cone oval; carpe els een ve 
seeds 1.5-2 em. long. [M. foetida (L.) 
oe re TEE OC ws 
ULL-BAY. 
MAGNOL SOUTHERN-MAGNOLIA.) — Ham- 
mocks, bluffs, sand- ars and sandy bottoms, 
Coastal Plain, C i o Tex., Ar N. 
C.—Spr.- —Cult. for ornament as far 
N as Washington, D. C. 
2. M. virginiana L.. Shrub or le at most \ 
with a trunk-diameter of 1 and pale 
bark: leaf- e d Or bea D 
e —15 ong, laucous an 
or He sky Pb flowers rather ineonspieuous, but very fragran 
ore 
p ka white; blades elliptic, oval or obovato mostly 2-3 em. p druiteoe 
oval or ovoid; i a glabrous: seeds 8-10 mm. long. [M. a L.]— 
