IlANDIUXnC OF TUKKS OF THE NoKTIIKHN StATES AND CaNADA. 211 



Tlie Frascr Magiuilia is never a very large 

 tree. It attains the lieiylit of from 30 to 40 

 ft., and its trunk, often crooked and leaning, 

 is rarely more than 12 or 18 in. in diameter, 

 vested in a gray-brown snioothish bark. Willi 

 few large branches it forms a wide-topped 

 often irregular head, and frequently sends up 

 two or more trunks from a single base. It 

 is quite an abundant tree on the southern 

 slopes of the Alleghanies at an altitude of 

 from 2000 to 3000 ft. where it may be found 

 leaning over tlie turbulant mountain streams 

 ill company with tiie Sorrel-tree, ItJiodoilen- 

 drons, Witch Hazel. Silver-bell Tree, Black 

 Birch, Yellow Buckeye, etc. It ranges north- 

 ward among the mount:iins into \ irginia, 

 where, however, it is far less abundant. Not 

 as hardy as most of the other INIagnolias, it 

 is not as extensively planted for ornamental 

 purposes, excepting in the Southern and Mid- 

 dle States Avhere it is planted as a valuable 

 ornament.il tree. 



Its wood is light, a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighing 31.18 lbs.. soVt and easily 

 worked. 1 



Tjcavm clocidiKiiis. clustered at the ends of tlic 

 branehlets, ohovatc spatiihitc, anri','ulat<> at hasi. 

 acute or obtuse at ajx'x. sclaliious dark s^ri'di 

 above, paler beneath : buds .nlal)rous. piiriilisli 

 preen. Floircrs white. fra'.;raut. S-lo in. across : 

 sopals early deciduous : petals (Jit. siMeadinii. 

 obovato-spatulate. longer than the s(>pals and those 

 of the outer rank larger and broader than those 

 of the inner. Fruit oblong, glabrous, .3-4 in. long, 

 the carpels with long curved beaks; seed com- 

 pressed. 



1. A. W., XI, 251. 



