20 FOKEST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



M. Virginiana, var. a. glauca, Linnaeus, Spec, l ed. 535. 



Jf. fragrans, Salisbury, Prodr. 379. Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 91 ; Med. Bot. ii, 32. 



M. longifolia, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 11. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 83. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 308. 



M. glauca, var. latifolia, Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 350. Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 381. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 218. 



If. glauca, var. longifolia, Alton, Hort. Kew. 2ed. iii, 330. Pursb, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 361. Eafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 

 91. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 116. Eaton, Manual, G ed. 218. 



SWEET BAY. WHITE BAY. BEAVER TREE. WHITE LAUREL. SWAMP LAUREL. 



Cape Ann, Massachusetts; New Jersey southward, generally near the coast, to bay Biscayne and Tainpa bay, 

 Florida ; basin of the Mississippi river south of latitude 35, extending west to southwestern Arkansas and the 

 valley of the Trinity river, Texas. 



A tree 15 to 22 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 1.20 meter in diameter, or toward its northern limits 

 reduced to a low shrub ; swamps or low wet woods, reaching its greatest development on the rich hummocks of 

 the interior of the Florida peninsula and along the low sandy banks of pine-barren streams of the Gulf states. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact; medullary rays very numerous, thin; color, light brown 

 tinged with red, the sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.5035 ; ash, 0.47 ; in the Gulf states sometimes used in 

 the manufacture of broom handles and small woodenware. 



The dried bark, especially of the root, of this species and of M, acuminata and M. Umbrella is included in the 

 American Materia Medica, furnishing an aromatic tonic and stimulant used in intermittent and remittent fevers ; 

 a tincture made by macerating the fresh fruit or bark in brandy is a popular remedy for rheumatism (U. 8. 

 Dispensatory, 14 ed. 567. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 891). 



3. Magnolia acuminata, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 2. ed. 75G. Marshall, Arbustum, 83. Walter, Fl. Caroliniaua, 159. B. S. Barton, Coll. i, 13. Alton, Hort. Kew. ii, 251; 2 ed. 

 iii, 331. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 674. Willtlenow, Spec, ii, 1257 ; Ennm. i, 579. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Ara. i, 329. Nouveau Duliamel, ii, 

 222. Desfontaiues, Hist. Arb. ii, 5. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 82, t. 3; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 15, t. 53. Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. ii, 381. De Candolle, Syst. i, 453 ; Prodr. i, 80. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 418. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 18. Bot. Mag. t. 2427. 

 Hayne, Deiid. Fl. 117. Elliott, Sk. ii, 37. Rafinesque, Med. Bot. ii, 32. Guiinpol, Otto & Hayne, Abb. Holz. 18, t. 17. 

 Sprengel, Syst. ii, 642. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 221 ; Fl. N. York, i, 28. Rafinesque, Med. Bot. ii, 34. Beck, Bot. 15. 

 Sertum Botanicum, v. & t. Don, Miller's Diet, i, &3. Reicheubacli, Fl. Exot. t. 251. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 218. London, 

 Arboretum, i, 273 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 312. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 43. Dietrich, Syu. iii, 308. Griffith, Med. 

 Bot. 98. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3. ed. 9. Darby, Bot. S. States, 211. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. S. 

 States, 14. Curtis in Rep. Geological Snrv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 67. Wood, Cl. Book, 214 ; Bot. & Fl. 24. Porcher, Resources 

 S. Forests, 38. Baillou, Hist. PI. i, 140. Gray, Manual N. States, 5. ed. 49. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 371. Young, Bot. Texas, 

 149._Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 891. Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 58. 



M. Virginiana, var. e. Linnseus, Spec, l ed. 536. 

 M. DeCandollii, Savi, Bibl. Ital. i, 224 & t. 

 Tulipastrum Americanum, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii, 483. 



CUCUMBER TREE. MOUNTAIN MAGNOLIA. 



Western ew York to southern Illinois, southward along the Alleghany mountains, and scattered through 

 eastern and middle Kentucky and Tennessee, usually on Carboniferous deposits, to southern Alabama (Stockton, 

 Mohr) and northeastern Mississippi; Arkansas, Crowley's ridge, and in the southern and southwestern part of the 

 state (Texarkana, Harvey, and in Polk, Howard, Cross, and Pike counties). 



A large tree, 20 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.20 meter in diameter; rich woods, reaching its 

 greatest development on the slopes of the southern Alleghany mountains. 



Wood durable, light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact, satiny ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, 

 yellow-brown, the sap-wood lighter, often nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4690; ash, 0.29; used for pump-logs, water- 

 troughs, flooring, cabinet-making, etc. 



4. Magnolia cordata, Michaux, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 328. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 331. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 547. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 87, t. 4; N. American 

 Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 18, t. 54. Purah, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 382. Lindley, Bot. Reg. iv, t. 325. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 18. De Candolle, Syst. 

 i, 455; Prodr. i, 80. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 118. Elliott, SK. ii, 38. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 474. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 642. Raimesque,. 

 Med. Bot. ii, 32. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 218. Sertum IJotanicum, v & t. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 83. Reichenbach, Fl. Exot. t. 

 250. London, Arboretum, i, 275 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 312. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 43. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 

 308. Darby, Bot. S. States, 211. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 14. Curtis in Hep. Geological 

 Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 68. Wood, Cl. Book, 214 ; Bot. & Fl. 25. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 371. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. 



Tvlipastrum Americanum, var. subcordatum, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii, 483. 



