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Magnolia Auriculata. Ear-Leaved 

 Magnolia. 



Oafs and Order, 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 3-phyllus. PetaJa 9. Cap/. 2-valves, imbricatae. Sem. 

 baccata, pendula. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MAGNOLIA auriculata t foliis obovato-lanceolatis bad at- 

 tenuatis auritis glabris fubtus glaueis. 



MAGNOLIA- auriculata. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 1258. Dufrofs 

 in Encycl. Method. 3. p. 645. Bartr. Travels, 

 p. 339. Micbaux Fl. Bor.-Am. 1. 328. /* 



MAGNOLIA auricularis. Parad. Lond. 43. 



MAGNOLIA Fraferi. Walt. Fl. Carol. 1,59. cum icone. 



It was long fuppofed that the auriculated leaves Would alone 

 diftinguifh this fpecies of Magnolia from every other, but 

 later obfervers have difcovered two other fpecies with auri- 

 culated leaves, the viacrophylla of Michaux and the pyrami- 

 data of Bartraiw. 



Though a native of the fouthern Rates of North- America, 

 it bears our winters tolerably well, and flowers more early 

 than the grandiflora. The petals of our plant were not narrow, 

 as defcribed and figured in the Paradifus Londinenfis, from a 

 fpecimen that appears to have been of a much weaker plant 

 than ours, the drawing of which was taken in the nurfery of 

 Meflrs. Whitley and Brame, at Old-Brompton, from whofe 

 collection we have often been favoured with plants of the 

 greateft rarity and beauty. The highly fweet-fcented bloffoms 

 are produced in July. This fpecies is not inferted in Martyn's 

 Miller's Dictionary. 



