14 MAGNOLIACE^. 



Woods. Can. to Flor. W. to Texas. July, Aug. 1\.. Stem $8 feet high. 

 Racemes 6 10 inches long, somewhat panicled. Flowers greenish-white. 

 Has a very fetid smell. Medicinal. Black Snake-root, 



1C. ZANTHORIZA. .Linn. Yellow Root. 

 (From the Greek 'av9oj, yellow, and piga, a root.) 



Calyx deciduous, 5-sepalled. Petals 5, of 2 roundish gland- 

 like lobes, raised on a pedicel. Stamens 5 10. Ovaries 5 15, 

 - pointed with the curved styles. Follicles membranaceous, com- 

 pressed, usually 1 -seeded. 

 Z. apiifolia L'Herit. 



Banks of streams. Penn. to Geor. W. to Texas. May. Tj. Suffruticose. 

 Root large, yellow. Stem 23 feet high. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in ra- 

 cemes, dark purple. Yellow Root. 



ORDER II. MAGNOLIACEJE. MAGNOLIADS. 



Sepals 3 6, deciduous. Petals 3 27, in several rows. 

 Stamens indefinite, distinct, hypogynous ; anthers adnate, long. 

 Ovaries numerous ; style short ; stigma simple. Fruit either 

 dry or succulent, consisting of numerous carpels, which are ar- 

 ranged upon an elongated axis. Seeds solitary or several. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, coriaceous. Flowers large, 

 solitary, often odoriferous. 



1. MAGNOLIA. Linn. Magnolia. 

 (In honor of Prof. Magnol, a French botanist.) 



Sepals 3, deciduous. Petals 6 12, in concentric series. 

 Carpels 1 2 -seeded, persistent, forming a strobile-like fruit. 

 Seeds coated with a fleshy arillus, suspended by a long slen- 

 der funiculus. 



1. M. glauca Linn.: leaves perennial, oblong or oval, petiolate, glau- 

 cous beneath; flowers^ I2petalled; petals obovate, concave. 



Swamps.' Mass, to Flor. W. to Miss. May, June. A shrub or tree 

 10 15, sometimes 30 feet high, with a smooth whitish bark. Flowers terminal, 

 on thick peduncles, W 7 hite, 23 inches broad, very fragrant. The bark is aro- 

 matic and bitter. Sweet Bay. 



2. M. acuminata Linn. : leaves deciduous, oval, acuminate, pubescent 

 beneath ; flowers 6 9 petalled ; petals obovate, somewhat obtuse. - * 



Woods. N. Y. to Geor. June, July. A middle sized tree, sometimes, how- 

 ever, attaining the height of 70 feet. Flowers of a dull yellow color, sometimes 

 6 S inches in diameter, glaucous externally. Fruit when green resembling a 

 young cucumber. Bark aromatic. Cucumber Tree. 



3. M. tripetala Linn. : leaves deciduous, cuneate-lanceolate, ur-ute. silky 

 when younjr; petals 9, oval-lanceolate, acute, th?. outrr or. r s refiV.etcd. 

 M. r.-'-J'rrU.i 7, ; />;?. 



