CALYCANTHACEAE (CALYCANTHUS FAMILY) 409 



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



1. M. yirginiana L. (Ssiall or Laurel M., Sweet Bat.) Leaves oval to 

 broadly lanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, obtuse, glaucous beneath ; flower globular, 

 white, 5 cm. long, very fragrant ; petals broad ; cone of fruit small, ellipsoid. 

 {M. glauca L.) — Swamps, from near Cape Ann and N. Y. southw., near the 

 coast; in Pa. as far w. as Cumberland Co. May-July. — Shmb 1-6 m. high, 

 with thickish leaves, which farther south are evergreen. 



2. M. acuminata L. (Cucumber Tree.) Leavesthin, oblong, pointed, green 

 and a little pubescent beneath, 13-25 cm. long ; floioer slender-bell-shaped, 

 glaucous-green tinged with yellow, 5 cm. long ;' cone of fruit 5-7 cm. long, 

 cylindrical. — Rich woods, w. N. Y. to 111., Ark. and southw. May, June. — Tree 

 18-27 m. high ; fruit when young slightly resembling a small cucumber. 



3. M. macrophylla Michx. (Great-leaved M.) Leaves obovate-oblong, 

 cordate at the narrowed base, pubescent and lohite beneath ; flovjer open-bell- 

 shaped, white, loith a purple spot at base; petals ovate, 15 cm. long; cone of 

 fruit ovoid. — Ky., Ark., and southw. May, June. — Tree 6-12 m. high; 

 leaves 3-9 dm. long, somewhat clustered on the flowering branches. 



* * Leaves crowded on the summit of the flowering branches in an umbrella-like 

 circle; leaf-buds glabrous; flowers white, slightly scented.. 



4. M. tripetala L. (U3ibrella Tree.) Leaves obovate-lanceolate, pointed at 

 both ends, soon glabrous, 3-6 dm. long ; petals 9-12 cm. long. {M. Umbrella 

 Desr.) — S. Pa, to Ky., Mo., and southw. May. — Small tree. 



6. M. Fraseri Walt. (Ear-leaved Umbrella Tree.) Leaves oblong- 

 obovate or spatulate, auriculate at ihe base, glabrous, 2-5 dm, long ; petals 

 obovate-spatulate, with narrow claws, I dm. long. — Swamps and along streams, 

 Va. and Ky., along the Alleghenies, and southw. May, — A slender tree 9-15 

 m, high. 



2. LIRIODENDRON L. Tulip Tree 



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

 Anthers linear, opening outward. Pistils fiat and scale-form, narrow, imbricating 

 and cohering in an elongated cone, dry, falling away whole, like a samara or key, 

 indehiscent, 1-2-seeded in the small cavity at the base. (Name from \lpLov, lily 

 or tulip, and bevbpov, tree.) 



1. L. Tulip if era L. — 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 shallow 

 notch ; petals 5 cm. long, greenish yellow marked with orange ; cone of fruit 

 7.5 cm. long. — Rich soil, Worcester Co., Mass., to Ont., Wise, and southw. 

 May, June. — A most beautiful tree, sometimes 40 m. high and 2-3 m. in diam- 

 eter in the Western and Southern States, the timber commonly called Poplar or 

 White Wood. 



CALYCANTHACEAE (Caltcanthus Family) 



Shrubs loith opposite entire leaves, no stipules, the sepals and petals similar 

 and indefinite, the anthers adnate and extrorse, and the cotyledons convolute; 

 the fruit like a rose-hip. Chiefly represented by the genus 



1. CALYCANTHUS L. Carolina Allspice 



Calyx of many sepals, united below into a fleshy inversely conical cup (with 

 some leaf-like bractlets growing from it) ; the lobes lanceolate, mostly colored 

 like the petals, which are similar, in many rows, thickish, inserted on the top 

 of the closed calyx-tube. Stamens numerous, inserted just within the petals, 

 short ; some of the inner ones sterile (destitute of anthers). Pistils several or 

 many, inclosed in the calyx-tube, inserted on its base and inner face. — Aromatic 

 shrubs with brownish purple flowers terminating leafy shoots. (Name com- 

 posed of /cctXi/^, a cup or calyx, and dvdos, flower.) Butneria Duham. 



