Liriodendron. MAGNOLIACE^. 61 



& Spec. ed. 2, i. 756 ; Walt. Car. 159 ; Michx. Fl. i. 327 ; Michx. f. 1. c. 90, t. 5.1 M.fron- 

 dosa, Salisb. Prodr. 379. — In woods, S. Peunsylvauia to N. Carolina, Alabama, and through 

 Kentucky and Tennessee to S. W.Arkansas; fl. May and June. Also called Elk-wood in 

 some places. 



§ 4. Leaves membranaceous and deciduous, mediocre, rather dull green, not 

 approximate in umbrella fashion on the branches : flowers rather small, greenish 

 to light yellow: petals oblong, commonly not over 6, erect in anthesis, much 

 longer than the small sepals : carpels glabrous, in fruit pointless, the styles or 

 stigmas filiform and deciduous : fruit-cone comparatively small and narrow, often 

 torose, the shape and appearance when green like a gherkin, whence the name of 



CUCUMBEK-TREES. 



M. acuminata, L. (Cucumber-tree.) Tall tree with straight much prolonged trunk : 

 leaves light green, oval or oblong, more or less acuminate, and with either rounded or 

 acutish base, 6 to 9 inches long, soft-pubescent, especially beneath, glabrate above : petals 

 2 inches long, dull green and glaucous, or tinged with yellow. — Sy.st. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 1082, 

 & Spec. ed. 2, i. 756; Michx. Fl. i. 328; Michx. f. 1. c. 82, t. 3; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2427; 

 Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 20.^ M. Virginia, var. acuminata, L. Spec. i. 536. Ttdip- 

 astrum Americanum, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii. 483. — Woods in deep soil, W. New York, or 

 barely in Canada at Niagara, to Illinois, and south to Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia, 

 especially in the mountains; fl. May and June. 



M. cordata, Michx. A small and branching tree : leaves more pubescent, at least beneath, 

 ovate or oval, little or not at all acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, only on vigorous 

 shoots subcordate : petals cream-yellow. — Fl. i. 328 ; Michx. f. 1. c. 87, t. 4 ; Edw. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 325; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 474; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 20.* 

 Tulipastrum Americanum, var. subcordatum, Spach, 1. c. 485. — Georgia near Augusta and 

 Alabama, rare ; fl. April or May. 



4. LimODiENDRON, L. Tulip-tree. (Aetptos, lily, ^iv^pov, tree.) — 

 Spec. i. 535. Earlier in the form Liriodendrum, Hort. Cliff. 223, & Gen. 

 no. 960. Tulipifera, Pluk. Aim. 379, & Phytogr. t. 68, 117, 348; Catesb. 

 Car. i. t. 48. — Conduplicate leaves in the bud, each placed upside down by cur- 

 vature of the petiole, and enclosed along with the younger parts by its flat stipules 

 applied face to face. Single or perhaps two species,* deciduous-leaved. 

 L. Tulipifera, L. (Tulip-tree, White-wood, also wrongly called Poplar.) Tree 50 to 

 200 feet high, with large straight trunk : herbage glabrous ; leaves long-petioled, broad, 

 subcordate, obscurely angulate, 4-lobed and emarginate-truncate : flower-bud spathaceous- 

 bracteate by the last pair of stipules, these caducous : petals very broad, greenish yellow 

 marked with orange, inch or two long: cone of fruit about 3 inches long. — Spec. i. 535; 

 Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 275; Schk. Handb. t. 147; Nouv. Duham. iii. 62, t. 18; Barton, Veg. 

 Mat. Med. t. 8 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. ii. t. 31 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 64, t. 25. & — Woods of deep soil, 

 W. New England,^ through New York and adjacent borders of Canada to Wisconsin, south 

 to Arkansas and Florida ; fl. early summer. (China.) 



1 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 1-3, t. 9, 10. 



2 Add Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. ii. 29, t. 29; Sargent, Silv. i. 7, t. 4, 5. 



3 Prof. Sargent believes this to be merely a variety of the preceding, and has published it as 

 M. acuminata, var. cordata, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 3, xxxii. 473, Gard. & For. ii. 338, & Silv. i. 8, 

 t. 6, where it is stated that the exact form of the cultivated plant has not been rediscovered, although 

 specimens approaching it are not infrequent upon the Blue Ridge in Carolina and in Northern 

 Alabama. 



4 But one species ; see Henisl. Gard. Cliron. ser. 3, vi. 718. 



5 Add Garden, xxxiv. 31, f. on p. 42; Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. ii. 3, t. 26 & f. 106-111, 

 with map of distribution; Sargent, Silv. i. 19, t. 13, 14; Holm, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii. 1.3-35, 

 t. 4-9, showing the extraordinary variability in .shape of the leaves; Gray, PI. For. Trees N. A. t. 8. 



6 Eastward to Rhode Island, Thurber, and adjacent Massachusetts according to Russell, Gard. & 

 For. ii. 82. 



