8 Trees with Simple Leaves. LA i 



Leaf, about three to six inches long, thick and smooth ; 



dark green and polished above ; white below ; the 



middle rib green and distinct ; the side, ribs slight 



and indistinct. 

 Bark of trunk, smoothish, light gray, aromatic and bitter. 

 Flowers, large (two to three inches wide), white, at the 



ends of the branches, very fragrant. June, July. 



Fruit, bright red berries, at first in small cone-like clus- 

 ters, then hanging by slender threads. September. 



Fotind, in swampy ground, from Massachusetts southward, 

 usually near the coast. 



A small tree (often a bush), four to twenty-five feet 

 high, or higher southward, where its leaves are evergreen. 

 All parts of the tree (and it is the same with the other 

 magnolias) have an intensely bitter, aromatic juice, which 

 is stimulating and tonic. 



Fig. 3. — Umbrella Tree, Elkwood. M. tripltala, L. 



Leaves, simple ; alternate ; edge entire. 



Outline, long oval or slightly reverse egg-shape. Apex, 

 short, sharp-pointed. Base, pointed. 



Leaves, twelve to thirty-six inches long, six to eight inches 

 wide ; rather dark green above ; lighter beneath ; 

 silky when young, but soon smooth ; growing in 

 clusters at the ends of the branches. 



Bark, smoothish and light. 



Flowers, seven to eight inches across, at the ends of the 

 branches, white, and fragrant. May, June. 



Fruit, in a cylinder-shaped bunch, four to five inches 

 long, and rose-colored as it ripens. 



