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round-topped head, and slender dark dull red-brown branchlets thickly covered during two 

 years with short pubescence and marked by small pale lenticels. Winter-buds oblong- 

 obovate, often falcate, bluntly pointed, thickly covered with matted pale hairs, the ter- 

 minal \' long and \' thick, the axillary \'-\' in length and nearly surrounded by the narrow 



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leaf-scars marked by an irregular row of minute fibro-vascular bundle-scars. Bark dark 

 brown, and covered with small closely appressed scales. 



Distribution. Dry Oak-woods, valley of the Savannah River, Georgia; Spears Plantation 

 six miles south and Goshen Plantation sixteen miles south of Augusta, Richmond County, 

 near Mayfield, Hancock County, and Bath, Richmond County. Often cultivated, and 

 preserved in gardens for more than a century; not rediscovered as a wild plant until 1913 

 (L. A. Berckmans) ; hardy as far north as eastern Massachusetts. 



3. Magnolia grandiflora L. Magnolia. 



Magnolia fastida Sarg. 



Leaves elliptic to oblong-obovate or ovate, acute and bluntly pointed or acuminate at 

 apex, cuneate at base, coriaceous, bright green and shining above, more or less densely 

 coated below with rusty tomentum, 5'-8' long, 2'-3' wide, with a prominent midrib and 

 primary veins, deciduous in the spring at the end of their second year; petioles stout, 

 rusty-tomentose, l'-2' in length. Flowers on stout hoary-tomentose pedicels \'-\' long, 

 opening from April or May until July or August, fragrant, 7'-8' across, the petaloid sepals 

 and 6 or sometimes 9 or 12 petals abruptly narrowed at base, oval or ovate, those of the 

 inner ranks often somewhat acuminate, concave, and coriaceous, 3'-4' long and l^'-2' 

 wide; base of the receptacle and lower part of the filaments bright purple. Fruit ovoid or 

 oval, rusty brown, covered while young with thick lustrous white tomentum, at maturity 

 rusty-tomentose, 3'-4' long, 1^'-2|' thick; seeds obovoid or triangular-obovoid, more or 

 less flattened, \' long. 



A tree, of pyramidal habit, 60-100 or rarely 120-135 high, with a tall straight trunk 

 2-3 or occasionally 4-4| in diameter, rather small spreading branches, and branchlets 

 hoary-tomentose at first, slightly tomentose in their second year, and much roughened by 

 the elevated leaf-scars displaying a marginal row of conspicuous fibro-vascular bundle- 

 scars. Whiter-buds pale or rusty-tomentose, the terminal \'-\\' in length. Bark ^'-f 

 thick, gray or light brown, and covered with thin appressed scales rarely more than 1' long. 

 Wood hard, heavy, creamy white, soon turning brown with exposure, hardly distinguish- 

 able from the sapwood of 60-80 layers of annual growth; little used except for fuel. 



