AMERICAN 
MEDICAL BOTANY. 
LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. 
Tulip Tree. 
PLATE XXXL 
Tue vegetable world can hardly offer a more 
interesting object, than a tree of exalted stature 
and extensive shade, covered with a beautiful and 
singular foliage, putting forth from its boughs an 
immense number of large and variegated flowers, 
at the same time that its trunk affords one of the 
most useful species of wood, and its bark an aro- 
matic medicinal agent. Such an one is the Tulip 
tree of the United States. 
The forests of the Middle and Western States, . 
according to the representation of Michaux, a- 
bound with the Liriodendron tulipifera, as do like- 
wise the elevated parts of Carolina and Georgia. 
It is found in the New England states, but is 
principally confined to the southern parts of them. 
