320 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



What is probably a variety of this species is 



Magnolia acuminata, var. cor data, Sarg. 



This tree has been cultivated in gardens for nearly a century, and is distinguished 

 by its broader darker green more persistent leaves sometimes cordate at the base, 



and by its smaller bright canary-yellow flowers. Forms approaching the cultivated 

 plant in the shape and texture of the leaves and in the size and color of the flowers 

 are occasionally found on the Blue Ridge in South Carolina, and in central 

 Alabama, although none of these resemble exactly the cultivated plant, which is not 

 known in a wild state. 



4. Magnolia macrophylla, Michx. Large-leaved Cucumber-tree. 



Leaves obovate or oblong, acute or often abruptly narrowed and acute or 

 rounded at the apex, narrowed and cordate at the base, bright green and glabrous on 

 the upper surface, silvery gray, and pubescent, especially along the stout midribs 

 and primary veins on the lower surface, 20'-30' long, 9'-10' wide, falling in the 

 autumn with little change of color; their petioles stout, 3'-4' long, at first tomentose, 

 becoming pubescent. Flowers on stout hoary-tomentose peduncles, !'-!' long, soon 

 becoming glabrous or puberulous, white, cup-shaped, fragrant, 10'-12' across when 

 expanded; sepals membranaceous, ovate or oblong, rounded at the apex, 5'-6' long, 

 much narrower than the 6 ovate concave thick creamy white petals Q'-T long and 

 3'-4' wide, at maturity reflexed above the middle, those of the inner row narrower 

 and often somewhat acuminate. Fruit ovate to nearly globose, pubescent, 2'-3' 

 long, bright rose color when fully ripe; seeds obovoid, compressed, ' long. 



A tree, 30-50 high, with a straight trunk 18'-20' in diameter, stout wide- 

 spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical round-topped head, and stout 

 brittle branchlets hoary-tomentose when they first appear, light yellow-green, 

 pubescent, and conspicuously marked during their first winter by the large irregu- 

 larly shaped sometimes longitudinal slightly raised leaf-scars, with many scattered 

 fibro- vascular bundle-scars, turning reddish brown during the second and gray during 

 their third season. ^Winter-buds: terminal, bluntly pointed, covered with a thick 

 coat of snowy white tomentum, If -2' long, '-f' wide; lateral, much flattened, 



