CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 



MAG-NOLIACE^E. 



1. Magnolia grandiflora, L. 



Big Laurel. Bull Bay. 



Cape Fear River, North Carolina, south, near the coast, to Mosquito 

 Inlet and Tampa Bay, Florida ; along the coast of the Gulf States to 

 southwestern Arkansas, and the valley of the Brazos River, Texas, 

 extending north in the valley of the Mississippi River to latitude 32° 30'. 



A magnificent evergreen tree, 18 to 27 metres in height, with a trunk 

 O.G0 to 1.20 metres in diameter; reaching its greatest development on the 

 " bluff " formations along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River from 

 Vicksburg to Natchez, and in western Louisiana. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact, easily worked, 

 satiny ; medullary rays very numerous, thin ; color creamy white or 

 often light brown, the heavier sap-wood nearly white ; little used except 

 as fuel ; suitable for interior finish, fine cabinet work, etc. 



2. Magnolia glauca, L. 



Sweet Bay. White Bay. Beaver Tree. White Laurel. Swamp 

 Laurel. 



Cape Ann, Massachusetts ; New Jersey, southward, generally near 

 the coast, to Bay Biscayne and Tampa Bay, Florida ; westward through 

 the valley of the Mississippi River south of latitude 3.J°, and the Gulf 

 States to southwestern Arkansas and the valley of the Trinity River, 

 Texas. 



A tree 15 to 22 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 1.20 metres 

 in diameter, or toward its northern limits reduced to a low shrub ; 

 swamps or low wet woods, reaching its greatest development on the rich 

 hummocks of the interior of the Florida peninsula, and along the low 

 sandy banks of pine-barren streams in the Gulf States. 



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

 very numerous, thin ; color light brown tinged with red, the sap-wood 



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