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MAGNOLIACEJE. (MAGNOLIA FAMILY.) 
3 . III. XJml>i'ella, Lam. (Umbrella-tree.) Leaves obowlc - 
lanceolate , pointed at both ends, soon smooth, crowded in a circle at tlu 
apex of the flowering branches; petals obovate — oblong ; cone of fruit 
large, conical-oblong. —Mountains of Penn, (and W. New York?). 
May. —A small tree. Leaves l°-2? long. Flowers white, 7'-8' 
broad. Fruit rose-color, 4'-5' long. — Possibly M. Fraseri (the 
Long-leaved Cucumber-tree) grows in the mountains of Pennsyl* 
vania. It is hardy in cultivation as far north as Boston. M. macro* 
phylla (the Large-leaved Magnolia) scarcely is so. 
2. LIRIODFNDRON, L. Tulip-tree. 
Sepals 3, reflexed. Petals 6, in 2 rows, making a bell-shaped 
corolla. Anthers linear, opening outwards. Pistils flat and scale* 
form, long and narrow, imbricated and cohering together in anob* 
long cone, dry, separating from each other and from the prolonged 
slender axis in the fruit, and falling away whole, like a samara 01 
key, indehiscent, I—2 -seeded in the small cavity at the base. 
Buds flatfish, sheathed by the successive pairs of flat stipules join* 
ed at their edges, the folded leaves bent down on the petiole so 
that their apex points to the base of the bud. (Name from 
lily or tulip , and devdpov, tree.) 
1. Li. Tulipifera, L.—Rich soil. May, June.—A » ost 
beautiful tree, sometimes 140° high and 8° -9° in diameter in the 
YV estern States, where it is called Poplar. Leaves very smooth, 
with 2 lateral lobes near the base, and 2 at the apex, which app* 3 ^ 
as if cut oflf abruptly by a broad shallow notch. Corolla 2' broad, 
greenish-yellow marked with orange. 
Order 3. ANOJVACEiE. (Custard-apple Family-) 
Trees or shrubs, with naked buds and no stipules , a caty* 
of 3 sepals, a corolla of 6 petals in 2 rows, valvate (ot 
nearly so) in the bud, hypogynous, polyandrous. Albu met 
ruminated. — Petals thickish. Anthers adnate, opening out¬ 
wards ; filaments very short. Pistils several or many, sep¬ 
arate or cohering in a mass, fleshy or pulpy in fruit. See* 
anatropous, large, with a crustaceous seed-coat, and a a 1 ** 
nute embryo at the base of the ruminated albumen. 
Leaves alternate, entire, feather-veined. Flowers axilla 1 ?’ 
solitary. Bark, &c., acrid-aromatic or fetid. 
