80 Magnolia glauca. 
The Magnolia glauca,* though in general only a small tree, 
sometimes attains the height of forty feet; and a diameter of twelve 
or fourteen inches. It is in the southern states, particularly the Ca- 
: rolinas, that it reaches this, its greatest elevation. Its most common 
height i is from twenty to thirty feet, and in the vicinage of Philadel- 
phia, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, it is a much lower tree, 
frequently flowering luxuriantly, when it has reached a height of five 
or six feet. Michaux, f. says that this is also the case in the envi- 
rons of New York. I have no where > seen it producing mature flowers 
aie so ig a stature, as it does near Christiana, or as it is vulgarly 
Christine, on the road from Philadelphia to Baltimore; where 
I have observed clusters of this Magnolia i in full flower, the largest 
individual among which, did not exceed four feet in height, and all 
of them much more deserving the appellation of bushes or shrubs 
than trees, The variation in the height of this species, is much in- 
fluenced by local exposure and peculiarity of soil. I have seen trees 
of the greatest discrepancy in stature, but precisely alike in respect 
to the size of the leaves, flowers, and fruit, occupying almost the 
same ground. The difference | in--these instances, appeared merely 
owing | to accidental situation ; the small ones occupying the shady 
thickets, and the aller trees, the skirts of woods. 
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The trunk is. Covered with & smooth grayish bark ; is tortuous, 
and much divided into divaricating branches. ‘I'he wood is whitish, 
-* This species appears to have been the first of its genus introduced into the gardéns of England, 
having been cultivated by Bishop Compton, at Fulham, in 1688. 
