12 MAGNOLIACEJE, (MAGNOLIA FAMILY.) 
3-lobed ; racemes elongated, downy ; follicle broadly ovate, sessile. — Woods in 
the upper districts and northward. July. — Stem 3°-8° high. Leaflets 2! long. 
Racemes 6/—12/ long. Flowers fetid. 
* * Ovaries 3-8: stigma minute: seeds vertical, chaffy. 
2. C. cordifolia, Pursh. Leaves twice ternate; leaflets rigid, ovate ar 
cordate-ovate, 2—3-lobed, incised and serrate ; racemes panicled, elongated ; 
follicles oblong, sessile. — Mountains of North Carolina. September. — Stem 
39-49 high. (*) 
3. C. Americana, Michx. Leaves thrice ternate ; leaflets thin, ovate, 
incisely toothed and serrate, the terminal one 3-cleft or 3-parted ; racemes pani- 
cled, elongated ; follicles obovate-oblong, slender-stalked. — Alleghany Moun- 
tains, from Georgia northward. August and Sept. — Stems 39 —4? high. 
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ORDER 2. MAGNOLIACEA. (MacwoLia FAMiLY.) 
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Aromatic trees or shrubs, with simple, alternate, petioled leaves, and 
regular, solitary, hypogynous flowers. Sepals and petals mostly simi- 
lar, imbricated in three or more rows in the bud. Stamens distinct or 
united. Anthers adnate. Ovaries numerous, imbricated or whorled, 
1—2-ovuled. Fruit fleshy, baccate, or samara-like, distinct, or confluent 
in cone-like heads. Seed dry or baccate. Embryo minute, at the base 
of fleshy albumen. 
Synopsis. 
SUBORDER I WINTEREÆ. Flowers perfect. Stamens numerous, separate. Ovaries 
in a single whorl, J-ovuled, becoming coriaceous follicles in fruit. — Erect shrubs. 
Leaves entire. Stipules none. - : 
1l ILLICIUM. Leaves evergreen. Flowers nodding. 
Susorprr II. SCHIZANDREZE. Flowers monecious. Stamens united. Ovaries im- 
bricated in a head, 2-ovuled, becoming scattered berries in fruit. — Climbing shrubs. 
Leaves deciduous, often toothed. Stipules none. 
2. SCHIZANDRA. Stamens 5, united into a 5-lobed disk. 
Susorper IM. MAGNOLIEAS. Flowers perfect. Stamens numerous, separate. Ova- 
ries imbricated in a head, 2-ovuled. Fruit fleshy or somewhat woody, in cone-like heads 
; or spikes. — Chiefly trees. Leaves entire. Stipules large. 
3. MAGNOLIA. Fruit fleshy, dehiscent, persistent on the receptacle. Anthers introrse. — 
4. LIRIODENDRON. Fruit woody, indehiscent, samara-like, deciduous. Anthers extrorse. 
1. ILLICIUM, L. ' ANISE-TREE. 
Flowers perfect. Sepals 3 or 6. Petals 9-30, in rows of tire; spreading. 
Stamens numerous, with short filaments. Anthers introrse. Ovaries 6 or more 
in a single whorl, sessile, 1-celled, I-ovuled. Style subulate, recurved. Folli- 
cles coriaceous, spreading, at length 2-valved. Seed ascending. — Smooth anise- — 
scented shrubs. Leaves evergreen, entire, mostly clustered at the summit ofthe — — 
branches, rnet eom. ‘Pedueles in terminal isters, I-flowered, — 
