ARBORETUM NOTES. 57 
MAGNOLINCEZ:. 
Has flowered well this year. (June, 1864). 
The leaf buds of Magnolia acuminata are clothed 
with very close shining, silky, almost silvery hairs, 
giving them altogether a grey colour; those 
of Magnolia tripetala, Magnolia auriculata, and 
Magnolia glauca, are perfeCtly smooth. (1873). 
The younger tree of this species planted 1841), 
bore, this year, a quantity of fruits which made a 
much further advance towards ripeness than any 
I have yet seen. When I first observed them 
(September 15), they were flushed all over with 
a beautiful rose or carmine colour; and these red 
fruits had a fine effect in the midst of the pale green 
leaves. By the end of the first week in Otober, 
their colour had changed to a dusky reddish purple, 
and they were beginning to open; each several 
carpel of the fruit splitting open vertically up its 
outer face, and showing the bright orange-coloured 
seeds, — sometimes solitary in each carpel, 
sometimes two, one above the other. Not 
long afterwards, in stormy weather, all the 
remaining fruits were beaten off the tree, so that 
none of them came to their full growth. None 
are much more than one inch long, whereas 
Michaux says their length is about three inches. 
They do not indeed well agree, either in shape or 
colour with what he figures as the fruit of this 
species of Magnolia. 
Magnolia 
acuminata 
