MAGNOLIA GLAUCA-SMALL MAGNOLIA, 



CLASS, POLYANDRIA ; ORDER, POLYGYNIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, MAGNOLIACE^E. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx, three leaved. Corol, six or more petalled. 

 Capsules two valved, imbricate, seeds berried, hanging on long 

 cords. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves oval, whitish, green beneath. 

 Petals, egg form, smallest at base. 







The whole tribe to which this belongs is celebrated for the 

 elegance of its flowers, the beauty of its foliage, the generally 

 majestic deportment and universal fragrancy that characterize the 

 species. Some of its flowers are fourteen inches in diameter, says 

 Nuttall, and the leaves three feet in length. The same writer ob- 

 served trees belonging to it of a smooth shaft of ninety feet, before 

 sending off any considerable branches; its spreading top, clothed 

 with deep green leaves, like the Laurel, and enlivened in most 

 seasons by large and fragrant flowers. The species we have 

 selected is more humble than its loftier brethren ; it varies in 

 height, from a mere bush to forty-five feet, owing entirely to the 

 soil in which it is placed ; as we sometimes see a number of them 

 together, exactly similar in wood, flowers, foliage, and fruit, yet 

 differing as much as we have mentioned in size, and the exam- 

 ination of the ground affording a ready solution. 



Under the common names of MAGNOLIA, SWAMP SASSAFRAS, 

 BEAVER TREE, SWEET BAY AND WHITE BAY, it is known in 



