46 MAGNOLIA FAMILY. 



II. Stipules none. Flowers not very large, perfect or dioe 

 cious. Two Southern plants which have been made the repre- 

 sentatives of as many small orders. 



4. ILLICIUM. Flowers perfect. Petals 9-30. Stamens many, separate. Pistils several 



in one row, forming a ring of i^lmost woody little pods. 



5. SCHIZANDKA. Flowers monoecious. I'etals mostly 6. Stamens 5, united into a 



disk or button-shaped body, which bears 10 anthers on the edges of the 6 lobes. 

 Pistils many in a head, which lengthens into a spike of scattered red berries. 



1. LIRIODENDRON, TULIP TREE (which is the meaning of the 



name in (ire^'k). 



L. Tulipifera, Linn. A tall, very handsome tree in rich soil, com- 

 monest W., where it, and the light and soft lumber (much used in cabi- 

 net-work), is called White-wood, and erroneously Poplar and Whitk 

 Poplar ; planted for ornament ; flowers late in spring, yellow with green- 

 ish and orange. Leaves with 2 short side-lobes, and the end as if cut ofC 



2. MAGNOLIA. (Named for Magnol, professor of botany at Mont- 

 pellier in 17th century.) Some species are called Umbrella Trees 

 from the way the leaves are placed on the end of the shoots ; others. 

 CucuiMBER Trees from the appearance of the young fruit. (Lessons. 

 Figs. 179, 348-355.) 



* Native trees of this country, often planted for ornament ; flowers appear 



ing after the leaves. 



*- Leaves all scattered along the branches ; leaf-buds silky. 



■<-*■ Leaves coriaceous, evergreen {in the second only so at S.). 



M. grandifl6ra, Linn. Great-flowered Magnolia of S., half-hardy 

 in the Middle States. The only perfectly evergreen species ; splendid 

 large tree with coriaceous oblong or obovate leaves, shining above, mostly 

 rusty beneath ; the flowers very fragrant, white, 6'-9' broad, in spring. 



M. glatica, Linn. Small or Laurel M., Sweet Bay. Wild in swamps 

 N. to New Jersey, Penn., and E. Mass. ; a shrub or small tree, with oval, 

 broadly lanceolate, obtuse leaves, glaucous beneath, and globular, white, 

 and very fragrant flowers (2'-3' wide) in summer. 



+* ■»-* Leaves thin, deciduous. 



= Green beneath. 



M. acuminata, Linn. Cucumber Tree. Wild from Western N. Y. 

 to 111. and S. ; a stately tree, with the leaves thin, green, oblong, acute 

 at both ends, and somewhat downy beneath, and oblong-bell-shaped pale 

 yellowish-green flowers (2' broad), late in spring. 



= = Whitish, downy, or glaucous beneath. 



M. cordita, Michx. Yellow Cucumber M. of Georgia, hardy even 

 in New England ; like the last, but a small tree with the leaves ovate or 

 oval, stldnin cordate ; flowers lemon-yellow. 



M. macrophylla, Miclix. Great-leaved M. of the S., nearly hardy 

 \. to Mass. A small tree, with leaves very large (2°-3° long), obovate- 

 oblong wirii a i^nniate Imse, downy and white beneath, and an immense 

 open, bell-sliapi'd flower (8'-12' wide when outspread), somewliat fra- 

 gi-ant in early summer ; petals ovate, white, with a purple spot at the 

 base. 



