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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



LIRIODENDRON. 



Polyandria Polygynia. Linn. Magnoliaceae. Juss. Tonic, aperient. 



Poplar or Tulip Tree. Liriodendron tulipifera. 



This tree, which surpasses 

 most others of North Ameri- 

 ca in height and in the 

 beauty of its foliage and of 

 its flowers, is one of the 

 most interesting from the 

 numerous and useful appli- 

 cations of its wood. Wher- 

 ever it abounds, and through- 

 out the greater part of the 

 United States, it is called 

 Poplar. In Connecticut, 

 New York and New Jersey, 

 it is known by the name of 

 White Wood, and of Canoe 

 Wood, and more rarely by 

 that of Tulip Tree. This 

 last denomination we have thought most proper to adopt, from 

 the resemblance of its flowers to the tulip. The southern 

 extremity of Lake Champlain, in latitude 45, may bo considered 

 as the northern limit, and the river Connecticut, in the longitude 

 of 72, as the eastern limit of the tulip tree. It is only beyond 

 the Hudson, which flows two degrees farther west, and below 

 the 43 of latitude, that it is frequently met with and fully 

 developed. It is multiplied in the Middle States, in the upper 

 parts of the Carolinas and of Georgia, and still more abundantly 

 in the Western Country, particularly in Kentucky. Its compara- 

 tive rareness in the maritime parts of the Carolinas and of 

 Georgia, in the Floridas and in Lower Louisiana, is owing less 

 to the heat of the summer, than to the nature of the soil, which 

 in some parts is too dry, as in the pine-barrens, and in others too 



Fig. 1. 



PLATE LI I. 

 A leaf. Fig. 2 



A cone. 



