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MAGNOLIA GLAUCA sempeuvirens. 

 Evergreen Swamp Magnolia. 



POLYANDRIA. PoLYGYNIA. 



Class 13. Order 7. 



Magnolia : so named by Plumier in honour of Pierre Magnol, Pro- 

 fessor of Medicine and Prefect of the Botanic Garden at Mont- 

 pelier. 



Linn. gen. n. 690. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cal. Perianth three-leaved j leaflets ovate, concave, petal-shaped, 

 deciduous. Cor. Petals nine, oblong, concave, blunt, narrower at 

 the base. Stam. Filaments numerous, short, acuminate, com- 

 pressed, inserted into the common receptacle of the pistils below 

 the germs. Anthers linear, fastened on each side to the margin 

 of the filaments. Fist. Germs numerous, ovate-oblong, two-celled, 

 covering a club-shaped receptacle. Styles recurved, contorted, very 

 short. Stigmas villose, perpendicular with the style. Per. stro- 

 bile ovate, covered with capsules, which are compressed, roundish, 

 scarcely imbricate, clustered, acute, one-celled, two-valved, sessile, 

 opening outwards, permanent. Seeds two or one, roundish, berried, 

 hanging by a thread from the sinus of each scale of the strobile. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, glaucous underneath. 



Branches many, somewhat slender, covered with a smooth 

 bark. Leaves oblong, entire, smooth, bright green on the 

 upper surface, but white or glaucous underneath. The flowers 

 are solitary at the extremity of the branches, with from eight 

 to ten white and concave petals. The fruit is conical and 

 imbricated, about the size of a walnut, and when ripe is of a 

 dark-brown colour. Seeds either singly or in pairs within 

 the imbricated scales. 



