LE 2d 
LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. COMMON TULIP-TREE, 
SEEN HE TE ee TEE MEE EE ETE 
=e 'Clafs and Order. s, 
PoLY¥ANDRIA PoLyGYNIA, 
Generic Chara&er. 
Cal. 3-phyllus. Petala6, Sem. imbricata in ftrobilum. 
. “Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. i 
LIRIODENDRON Tuhpifera foliis lobatis, Linn. Syft. Veg, 
—< ed.14. Murr. p. 507. Ait. Kew. v. 2. 2506 
TULIPIFERA virginiana, tripartito aceris folio: media laci- . 
nia velut abfcifla. Pluk. Alm. 379. #. 117- 
J. 5 SF t. 248. f. 7. Cate/b, Carol, 1, pe 
= 48. Z. 48. : ; 
LIRIODENDRON foliis angulatis truncatis. Trew. Ebret. t.x. 
The Tulip-tree is a native of moft parts of North- America, 
Marsua t defcribes it as often growing to the fize of a very 
large tree, 70 or 80 feet in height, and above 4 feet.in dia- 
meter ; he mentions two varieties, one with yellow and the other 
with white wood; that with yellow wood is foft and brittle, 
much ufed for boards, heels of fhoes, alfo turned into bowls, 
trenchers, &c. the white is heavy, tough, and hard, and is 
fawed into joifts, boards, &c. for building. 
Ray informs us in his Hi. Pi. that this tree was culti- — 
_ vated here by Bifhop Compton, in 1688: and from MILLER 
we learn, that the firft tree of the kind which flowered in ~ 
this country, was in the gardens of the Earlof PereRBOROUGH, 
at Parfons-Green, near Fulham; in Mr. Orv’s garden, at Wal- 
ham-Green, there is, among other choice old trees, a very fine — 
tulip-tree, which is every year covered with bloffoms, and which — 
afforded us the fpecimen here figured. It flowers in June and — 
July, rarely ripens its feeds with us, though it does readily 1m 
America, _ = ee, oe 
The foliage of this plant is extremely fingular, moft of the: & 
_ Jeaves appearing as if truncated, or cut off at the extremity; 
they vary greatly in the divifion°of their lobes, the flowers dif ee 
fer from thofe of the tulip in having a calyx, but agree asf 
the number of petals, which is fix; and fo they are defcribed ey 
in the fixth edition of the Gen, Pl. of Linn. but in Profefor — 
Murray's Syft. Veg. Ait. H.K. Linn. Syft. Nat. ed. 135 by 
GMELIN, g are given, this in the firft inftance muft be a mete _ 
typographical error arifing from the inverfion of the 6. pe: 
This tree is found to flourifh moft in a foil moderately i 
and moift, is ufually raifed from feeds, the procefs of which 1 
_ amply defcribed by Mizier in his DiGionary. 
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