46 ma(;n()L1a family. 



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

 cious. Two Southern plants which have been made the re[)re- 

 sentatives of as many small orders. 



4. ILLICIUM. Flowers perfect. Petals 0-30. Stamens many, separate. Pistils several 



in one row, forming a ring of almost woody little pods. 



5. SCHIZANDRA. Flowers monoscious. Petals mostly 6. Stamens 5, iinited into a 



disk or button-shaped body, which bears 10 anthers on the edges of the 5 lobes. 

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



1. LIRIODENDRON, Tl'LII' TIIEK (whicli is the meaning of the 

 name in tJreek). 



L. Tulipifera, Linn. .\. la I, very handsome tree in rich soil, com- 

 monest \y.. where it. and (he li.i;ht and soft lumber (much used in cabi- 

 net-work), is called White-wood, and erroneously Poplau and Whitf. 

 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 off. 



2. MAGNOLIA. (Named fur JIagnol, professor of botany at Mont- 

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

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

 Cucumber Trees from the appearance of the young fruit. (Lessons, 

 Figs. 179, 348-355.) 



* Native trees of this coiintri/, often planted far ornament ; flovers 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, 0'-9' broad, in spring. 



M. glailca, 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, Limi. Cucu.mber Tree. Wild from Western X. 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, doicny, or glaucous beneath. 



M. cord^ta, Michx. Yellow Cucumber M. of Georgia, hardy even 

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

 oval, seldom cordnte ; flowers lemon-yellow. 



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

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

 oblong with a cordate base, downy and white beneath, and an immense 

 open, bell-shaped llower (8'-12' wide when outspread), somewhat fra- 

 grant in early summer ; petals ovate, white, with a purple spot at the 

 base. 



