TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



By Gifford Pinchot 



Magnolia foetida, Sargent.^ 



(MAGNOLIA.) 



A large pyramidal tree, with gray or light brown bark covered 

 with small thin scales, reaching a height of 90 and a diameter of 

 U feet. 



It occurs southward from the mouth of the Cape Fear river, 

 rarely more than fifty or sixty miles from the coast, to Mosquito 

 inlet and Tampa bay, Florida; along the Gulf coast to the val- 

 ley of the Brazos river, Texas ; in western Louisiana and southern 

 Arkansas, and on the bluffs of the lower Mississippi, where it 

 reaches its best development. 



MAP OF 



NOKTH CAKOLINA 



LEGEND. 

 Distribution of the CUCUMBER TREE 

 (Magnolia acuminata, Z.) 



Distribution of the MAGNOLIA (Mag- 

 nolia foetida, Sar^.) 



In North Carolina, where it grows to an average height of 50 

 to 70 feet, it is found rather sparingly in Brunswick county, in 

 the southeast corner of the State (fig. 1), growing in the rich, 

 moist soil of river swamps. 



It reproduces itself rather slowly in the latitude of this State, 



*Magnolia grancUflora, Liniifeus. 



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