II. Wll^TFAiA'CE^: ILLI'CIUM. 



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Florida to Louisiana, in swamps. Height 

 4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1766. Flowers 

 dark reddish purple, with the odour of anise ; 

 April to June. Fruit none in England. 

 Decaying leaves reddish brown, dropping in 

 June. 



A compact, many-stemmed, bushy, ever- 

 green, slow-growing shrub, attaining, in the 

 neighbourhood of London, the height of 6 or 

 8 feet or upwards, and flowering every year. 

 The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, 

 pointed at both extremities, smooth, shining, 

 and, in common with the whole plant, have a 

 rich reddish hue. The flowers are numerous, 

 solitary, and terminal ; and bear some general 

 resemblance to those of Calycanthus floridus. 

 The manner in which the plant is propagated 

 in the London nurseries is, generally, by form- 

 ing stools of it in a cold-pit, and laying down 

 the shoots, which require two years to root 

 sufficiently to admit of their being separated 

 from the parent plant ; but it is sometimes 

 propagated by cuttings both of the young and 

 of the old wood. This ver\' handsome ever- 

 green shrub is sufficiently hardy to have re- 

 sisted the winter of 1837-8, in several situations 

 in the climate of London. 



Uiciuni iTondAnum. 



Order III. MAG'S Oh LrCEJE. 



Ord. Char. Calyx of 3 deciduous sepals. Corolla of 3 12 petals, dis- 

 posed in threes. Anthers adnate, elongated. Carpels numerous, disposed 

 along a spiked axis. Leaves destitute of pellucid dots, stipulate when young. 

 Stipules convolute, and enclosing the unexpanded leaves. Evergreen and 

 deciduous trees and shrubs, chiefly natives of warm climates. 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen or deciduous ; oblong, not 

 dotted, more or less corjaceous, articulated distinctly with the stem, and, 

 when expanding, rolled together like those of i^icus. Flowers large, mostly 

 white or yellowish. Seeds roundish, large, red or brown. The species 

 liardy in British gardens are included under the genera Magnol/a and 

 Liriodendron, the differential characters of which are as follows : 



Magno^l/w L. Carpel dehiscent ; that is, opening to admit the escape of the 



seed. 

 Liriode'ndron L. Carpel indehiscent ; that is, not opening to adnnt tlie 



escape of the seed. 



Genus I. 



MAGNO'L/J L. The Magnolia. Lin. Syst. Polyandria Polygynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 690. ; Dec. Prod., !. p. 79. ; Don's Mill., \. p. 82. 



Si/nunipnes. Magnolie, Fr. and Ital. ; Bicberbaum Hart., and Magnolie Willd., Ger. 



DeriiHition. The name Magn6l?Vi! was given to this genus by Linnjeus, in honour o( Pierre Magnn/, 

 professor of medicine, and prefect of the botanic garden at Montpelier. The German name 

 Bit'berhaum, beaver wood, is applied generically by Hartweg in the Hortus Cailsriilicnsis ; but, in 

 America, Beaver-wood appears to be applied only to M. glaijca. 



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