50 magnoliacete. (magnolia family.) 



'). M. Fr^eri, Walt. (Ear-leaved Umbrella-tree.) Leaves ohlong- 

 ohonite or spotulate, auriculate at the base, gliibrcms, 8-20' long ; petals obovate- 

 spatulate, with uarroAv claws, 4' long. — A-^a. and Ky., along the Alleghaiiies, 

 and sovithAvard. April, May. — A slender tree 30 -.50° high. Flower more 

 graceful and cone of fruit smaller than in the preceding. 



2. LI HI ODE ND RON, L. Tulip-tree. 



Sepals 3, reflexed. Petals 6, in two rows, making a hell-shaped corolla. 

 Anthers linear, opening outward. Pistils flat and scale-form, long and nar- 

 row, imbricating and cohering together in an elongated cone, dry, separating 

 from each other and from the long and slender axis in fruit, and falling away 

 whole, like a samara or key, indehiscent, 1 -2-seeded in the small cavit}- at the 

 base. Buds flat, sheathed by the successive pairs of flat and broad stipules joined 

 at their edges, tlie folded leaves bent down on the petiole so that the apex points 

 to the base of tlie bud. (Name from Xlpiov, lily or tulip, and 5ev8pou, tree.) 



1. L. Tulipifera, L. — Kich soil, S. Kew Eng. to Mich., Wise, and 

 south Avard. May, June. — A most beautiful tree, sometimes 140° high and 

 8-9° in diameter in the Western States, where it is Avrongly called White 

 Poplar. Leaves very smooth, with 2 lateral lobes near the base, and 2 at the 

 apex, which appears as if cut off abruptly by a broad sliallow notch. Petals 

 2' long, greenish-yellow marked with orange. Cone of fruit 3' long. 



Ordkr 8. ANONACE^E. (Custard- Apple Family.) 



Trees or slirnhs, wltJi naked hurls and no slijndes. n C(dijx of 3 sepals, 

 and a corolla of (^ petals in tiro rows, valcate in the hud, hypofjynous, pohj- 

 androus. — Petals thiokish. Anthers adnate, opening outward ; fila- 

 ments very short. Pis-ils several or many, separate or cohering in a 

 mass, fleshy or pulpy in fruit. Seeds anatropoiis, large, with a crusta- 

 ceous seed-coat, and a minute embryo at the base of the ruminated 

 albumen. — Leaves alternate, entire, feather-veined. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary. — A tropical family, excepting the following genus : — 



1. ASIMINA, Adans. North American Papaw. 



Petals 6, increasing after the bud opens ; the outer set larger than the inner. 

 vStamens numerous in a globular mass. Pistils few, ripening 1 -4 large and 

 oblong pulpy several seeded fruits. Seeds horizontal, flat, enclosed in a fleshy 

 aril. — Shrubs or small trees with unpleasant odor when bruised ; the lurid 

 flowers solitary from the axils of last year's leaves. (Name from Asiminier, 

 of -the French colonists, from the Indian name assimin.) 



1. A. triloba, Dunal. (Common Papaw.) Leaves thin, obovate lan- 

 ceolate, pointed; petals dull-purple, veiny, round-ovate, the outer ones 3-4 

 times as long as the calyx. — Banks of streams in rich soil, western N. Y. and 

 Penn. to 111., S. E. Neb., and southward. April, May. — Tree 10-20° high; 

 the young shoots and expanding leaves clotlied with a rusty down, soon gla- 

 brous. Flowers appearing with the leaves, 1^' wide. Fruits 3-4' long, yel- 

 lowish, sweet and edible in autumn. 



