16 MAGNOLIACEJE. (MAGNOLIA FAMILY.) 



pel at maturity opening on the back, from wliich the 1 or 2 berry-like seeds hang 

 by an extensile thread composed of unrolled spiral vessels. Inner seed-eoat 

 bony. Buds conical, the coverings formed of the successive pairs of stipules, 

 each pair enveloping the leaf next above, which is folded lengthwise, and ap- 

 plied straight against the side of the next stipular sheath, and so on. (Named 

 after Magnol, Professor of Botany at Montpcllier in the 17th century.) 



* Leaves all scattered along the branches: buds silky. 



1 ]?! glauca, L. (SMALL or LAUREL MAGNOLIA. SWEET BAY.) 

 Leaves oblong or oval, obtuse, white beneath; petals wltite, rouruled-obovate ; cone 

 of fruit small, oblong. Swamps, from near Cape Ann and New York south- 

 ward, near the coast ; in Pennsylvania as fur west as Cumberland Co. June 

 Aug. Shrub 4 -20 high, with thickish leaves, which farther south arc ever 

 green, and sometimes oblong-lanceolate. Flower very fragrant, 2' - 3' broad. 



2. M acilininftta, L. (CUCUMBER-TRICE.) Leaves oblong, pointed, 

 green and a little pubescent beneath ; petals glaucous-green tinged with yellow, 

 oblong ; cone of fruit small, cylindrical. Rich woods, W. New York, Penn., 

 Ohio, and southward. May, June. Tree 60-90 feet high. Leaves thin, 5'- 

 10' long. Flower 3' broad. Fruit 2' -3' long, when young slightly resembling 

 a small cucumber, whence the common name. 



3. UI. macrophylla, Michx. (GREAT-LEAVED MAGNOLIA.) Leaves 

 obocate-oblong , cordate at the narrowed base, pubescent and white beneath ; petals 

 white, with a purple spot inside at the base, ovate ; cone of fruit ovoid. Kock- 

 castle and Kentucky Kivcrs, S. E. Kentucky. Occasionally planted further 

 north. May, June. Tree 20 -40 high. Leaves 2 -3 long. Flower 

 8' -10' broad when outspread. 



# # Leaves croicdcd on the summit of the flowering branches in an utnbnUa-ltftt 

 circle : buds glabrous. 



4. I?I. Umbrella, Lam. (UMBRELLA-TREE.) Leaves olovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed at both ends, soon glabrous, petals obovatc-oblong. (M. tripetala, L.) 

 York and Lancaster counties, Penn. (Prof. Porter,) to Virginia and Kentucky 

 along the Alleghanies. May. A small tree. Leaves l-3 long. Flowers 

 white, 7' S' broad. Fruit rose-color, 4' 5' long, ovoid-oblong. 



5. JH. Frascri, Walt. (AR-LEAVED UMBRELLA-TREE.) Leaves ol>- 

 log-ol>ovate or spaldlate, auriculate at the base, glabrous ; petals obovate-spatulate, 

 with narrow claws. (M. auriculata, IMIH.) Virginia and Kentucky along the 

 Alleghanies, and southward. April, May. Tree 30 -50 high. Leaves 8'- 

 12' long. Flower (white) and fruit smaller than in the preceding. 



M. CORD\TA, Michx., the YELLOW CUCUMBER-TREE, of Georgia, and 



M. GRANDIFL&RA, L., the GREAT LAUREL MAGNOLIA, of the Southern 



States (a noble tree, remarkable for its ddiciously fragrant llowers, and thick 

 evergreen leaves, which arc shining and deep green above and rusty-colored be- 

 neath), are the only remaining North American species. Tlio former is hardy 

 as far north as Cambridge. One tree of the latter bears the winter and blos- 

 soms near Philadelphia. The Umbrella-tree attains only a small size in New 

 England, where M. macrophylla is precarious. 



