78 Forest Trees and Shrubs of Meriden, Conn. 



XXXIl. MAGNOLIACE/E. The Magnolia 



Family. 



140. MAGNOLIA GLAUCA. (Linn.) 



Laurel. Small Magnolia. Sweet Bay. S^wamp Laurel. 

 Beaver Tree. White Bay. 



Shrub or small tree, from four to twenty feet high. One of our 

 most beautiful ornamental shrubs. Wood light, soft, close-grained, 

 compact. Bark and root used medicinally. Specific gravity, 

 0-5035; ash, 0.47. 



141. LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. 



Tulip Tree. White Wood. Canoe Wood. Yellow 

 Poplar. 



One of our largest and most valuable trees, growing from eighty 

 to one hundred and twenty feet high, and from two or three to five 

 or six feet in diameter. Wood light, not strong, very close straight- 

 grained, compact, easily worked, and is one of the few kinds of 

 wood that will shrink endways of the grain when seasoning. Used 

 in interior finish, carriages, shingles, etc. Liriodendrin, a stimu- 

 lant tonic with diaphoretic properties, is obtained by macerating 

 the inner bark, especially of the root. Specific gravity, 0.4230; 

 ash, 0.23. 



ADDENDA. 



Since this article was written ray attention has been called to the 

 following additions : 



Order SALICACE^. 

 POPULUS DILITATA. (Ait.] 



Lombardy Poplar. Italian Poplar. 



Formerly a favorite ornamental tree, but not now common. 



Order URTICACEi*:. 



MACLURA AURANTIACA. (Nut.) 



Osage Orange. Bow-^vood. Bodock. 



Grows from fifteen to twenty feet high. Wood very hard and 

 durable. Used by the aborigines for making bows. Was called by 

 the early French settlers Bois d'Arc, from whence Bodock. 



