2 MAGNOLIACE.E. Magnolia. 



nearly white ; in the Gulf States sometimes used in the manufacture of 

 small wooden-ware. 



The dried bark, especially of the root, of this species and of M. acumi- 

 nata and M. Umbrella are included in the American Materia Medica, 

 furnishing an aromatic tonic and stimulant used in intermittent and remit- 

 tent fevers. 



3. Magnolia acuminata, L. 



Cucumber Tree. Mountain Magnolia. 



Western New York to southern Illinois ; southward along the Alle- 

 ghany Mountains, and scattered through eastern and middle Kentucky 

 and Tennessee, usually on Carboniferous deposits, to southern Alabama 

 and northeastern Mississippi ; and in northeastern, southern, and south- 

 western Arkansas. 



A large tree, 20 to 30 metres in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.20 

 metres in diameter ; rich woods, reaching its greatest development on the 

 slopes of the southern Alleghany Mountains. 



Wood durable, light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact, satiny ; 

 medullary rays numerous, thin ; color yellow-brown, the sap-wood lighter, 

 often nearly white ; used for pump-logs, water-troughs, flooring, cabinet- 

 making, etc. 



4. Magnolia cordata, Michx. 



Cucumber Tree. 



Southern Alleghany Mountain region, — Georgia to Winston County, 

 Alabama. 



A tree 22 to 24 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.G0 metre 

 in diameter ; low rich woods ; very rare and local. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays 

 very numerous, thin ; color light brown streaked with yellow, the sap- 

 wood light yellow. 



5. Magnolia macrophylla, Michx. 



Large-leaved Cucumber Tree. 



Western North Carolina to southeastern Kentucky, southward to 

 middle and western Florida and southern Alabama, extending west to the 

 valley of Pearl River, Louisiana; and in central Arkansas. 



A tree C to 18 metres in height, with a trunk rarely 0.60 metre in 

 diameter ; rich woods, reaching its greatest development in the limestone 

 valleys of northern Alabama ; rare and local. 



Wood light, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact, satiny : medullary 

 rays numerous, thin ; color brown, the sap-wood light yellow. 



