Trees Preferring to Grow in Moist Soil: 

 Lowlands and Meadows. 



All about the soil was moist and traversing it was a road 

 that had become hard and dry. On either side of the road 

 grew trees. They were water trees that had strayed away 

 from home. In the distance trailed a sluggish stream. Did 

 the trees long for it ? The ones on the farther side of the 

 road inclined over it so that a squirrel could hardly sit upright 

 under them ; a?id those on the side nearest the water leaned 

 away from the road until they continually broke down its hard 

 bank. It was a strange scene through which to travel. 



In the lowlands, away from the streams and swamps, there 

 are many trees ; but they are mostly contented with their lot, 

 and not so unhappy as those by the road. 



UMBRELLA-TREE. ELK- WOOD. (Plate XL VIII.) 

 Magnblia tripttala. 



Bark: light grey; smooth; marked with small dots similar to blisters. 

 Branches: green ; turning brown and grey as they grow older; brittle. Juice : 

 fragrant; bitter. Leaves: simple; alternate; ovate-lanceolate; with short, 

 stout petioles and growing in clusters at the ends of the branches ; pointed at 

 the apex and tapering to a point at the base ; entire ; bright green ; the lower 

 surface covered with a thick tomentum at maturity ; glabrous. Flowers : seven 

 and eight inches in diameter ; cream-white ; growing at the ends of the branches. 

 Sepals: light green ; obovate ; reflexed ; thin. Petals : six to nine ; narrow 

 and concave. Filaments: bright purple. Cone oi fruit: ovoid ; rose coloured 

 at maturity. 



A glance at this tree either when it is in bloom or in fruit is 

 enough to assure us that it is a magnolia. Clustered about it 



