Liriodendron 
tulipifera 
6O ARBORETUM NOTES. 
MAGNOLIACE. 
LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. 
Loudon, v. 1. 284. 
Two good trees in the arboretum, planted 1832.* 
They were very fine but were sadly shattered and 
mutilated by a violent gale of wind in the autumn 
(of 1842?) They flower abundantly most summers 
and form abundance of fruit, in which however the 
seeds are I believe always abortive. In the summer 
following the terrible winter of 1860, they did not 
flower, though the foliage was as good as usual. 
The plate of the tulip tree in Catesby’s Carolina, 
vol 1. plate 48, is very characteristic. That in 
Smith and Abbot's Insects of Georgia vol. 1. plate 102 
is the best representation of the flower that I 
know ; it belongs to the variety with the lobes of 
the leaves obtuse. 
In native (dried) specimens of the tulip tree, I 
observe that not unfrequently, the two lower or 
outer lobes of the leaves have each of them an 
additional tooth, or accessory lobe; so that the 
leaf altogether has six points instead of four. I 
have not seen this in the cultivated tree. (Decem- 
ber, 1877). 
A large tulip tree in the garden of the Bishop’s 
Palace, at Wells, which I examined last year, 
bears leaves having six points or teeth in the same 
manner as those of the native specimens I have 
mentioned above. 
* They have flowered for the first time in 1843. 
