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GENUS.—MAGNOLIA,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
MAGNOLIA GLAUCA. 
SWEET BAY. 
SYN.—MAGNOLIA GLAUCA, LINN; M. VIRGINICA, a GLAUCA, LINN.; M. 
FRAGRANS, SALISB.; M. LONGIFOLIA, SWEET. 
COM. NAMES.—SMALL, LAUREL, OR SWEET MAGNOLIA; SWEET, OR 
WHITE BAY; CASTOR, OR BEAVER WOOD; ELK OR INDIAN BARK; 
SWAMP SASSAFRAS, OR LAUREL; BEAVER TREE, BREWSTER; (FR.) 
LE MAGNOLIER GLAUQUE; (GER.) MAGNOLIE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH FLOWERS OF MAGNOLIA GLAUCA, LINN. 
Description.—This beautiful swamp shrub usually grows to a height of from 
4 to 20 feet.+ Bark smooth, whitish. Azds conical, silky; Zeaves all scattered, 
oblong, oval, or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, thickish, shining green above and bluish- 
white beneath, evergreen southward, deciduous northward, /nxflorescence solitary 
and terminal; flowers globular, white, very fragrant. Sefa/s 3, oblong, scaphoid. 
Petals 6 to 9, erect, broadly ovate, and narrowed at the base. S/amens numerous, 
imbricated; laments short; anthers long, adnate, introrse. s/s coherent in a 
mass aggregated upon the elongated torus. rut oblong, conical, small, and 
rather ligneous; cavpels many, dehiscing by a longitudinal dorsal suture; seeds 
I to 2 in each carpel, baccate, vermilion, hanging from the bursted carpels by an 
extenuate thread composed of spiral vessels; exdocarp bony. 
Magnoliacese.—This small but magnificent family of trees and shrubs, repre- 
sented in North America by 4 genera and 11 species, is characterized by having: 
the duds covered by membranous stipules; /eaves alternate, coriaceous, pinnately 
veined, entire, and punctate with minute pellucid dots. Flowers single, large, 
polypetalous, the calyx and corolla colored alike, in zstivation generally imbricate 
in 3 or more rows of 3, all deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous ; Jilaments 
short; anthers long, adnate, introrse. /st/s many, coherent, generally closely 
packed together over the prolonged receptacle; sty/es short or none; s&gmas 
simple. Fyuzt a fleshy, or dry cone, composed of many coherent carpels, Seeds 
I to 2 in each carpel, anatropous; a/bumen fleshy ; embryo minute, basal. 
FAR llier. 
* In honor of Professor Magnol, a botanist of the 17th century, at Montpe a ; : 
+ Mr, Britton observed, in meee Swamp, Ocean Co., N, J.,an individual with a diameter of trunk of 32.25 inches, 
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whose rings showed a growth of 150 years. 
