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Mr. Buckley does not mention the discovery of Magnolia 
cordata, and later travellers have not been more fortunate in this 
respect. Indeed, it is not probable that this tree, as is also true 
of Gordonia pubescens, has been seen at all since its original dis- 
covery. The younger Michaux’s Magnolia cordata, from the 
banks of the Savannah River, near Augusta, probably belonged 
to a not uncommon form of WW. acuminata, with broad, and often 
cordate leaves, and with light yellow flowers. Here too, I be- 
lieve, belongs Mr. Mohr’s Alabama plant, referred to MZ. cordata, 
in the Census Report upon the Forests of the United States. 
It is not known when the elder Michaux dicovered his Wag- 
nolia cordata. The early part of his journal is missing, but late 
in the autumn of 1787 he made a long and arduous journey to 
the mountains of South Carolina, principally for the purpose of 
collecting young trees of this species, so that it is fair to suppose 
that he had discovered it on some previous journey, the record 
of which, unfortunately, has not been preserved. He ascended 
the Keowee, to where the head of the river is formed by two 
rapid mountain streams, now laid down on the map as the Devil’s 
Fork and White Water Creek, and here on steep mountain slopes, 
overlooking these streams, he found Magnolia cordata in abun- 
dance. This was in the month of December, and as he seems to 
have had no difficulty in distinguishing the species without 
leaves, he must have become familiar with it previously, and 
probably in this very locality. The cultivated plants by which 
this species is now only known must be all descended from the 
seedling trees collected by Michaux in this winter journey, dur- 
ing which he nearly froze to death, and barely escaped starva- 
tion. ; 
Magnolia cordata should be looked for then, in the high and 
very broken country a little to the southeast of Highlands, in 
Macon County, North Carolina, and between that place and 
Cousin’s Head, in South Carolina. The trail from White Head, 
near Highlands, to Czesar’s Head, crosses the sources of all the 
small streams which form the Keowee, and this region is prob- 
ably most easily entered from this direction. No botanist since 
Michaux, so far as I have been able to learn, has ever visited it. 
It is reported to be entirely unsettled, very rough and broken, 
