Miujuulia. MACIXOIJAC'K.K. 59 



very glabrous: leaves entire, short-petioled, coriaceous and persistent: Howers 

 single in the axils of the leaves or bud-scak's, pedunculate, nodding : fruits yield- 

 ing an anisate volatile oil. Uoth in Japan and in America (under the name of 

 Poison Bay) said to be poisonous to tlie toufh. — Syst, Nat. ed. 1<>, ii iij.'jO, 

 & Gen. ed. 6^ iio- ''H j Gray, Gen. 111. i. o.j, t. 21.^ 



I. Floridanum, Klms. Shrub G to lO feet liigli: leaves ..l.loiig-l.iiicfoliiU-. A t.> 7 iiicJi.-« 

 long: petals 20 to 30, mostly linear, dark criiiison, half to three fourths ineli loug, widely 

 spreading : stameus uumcroiis. — Phil. Traii.s. Ix. 524, t. 12; L. Mant. ii. ;J'J5 ; l.ani. Ili. 

 t. 493, f. 1 ; Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 439 ; Michx. Fl. i. 326 ; Nouv. Duhani. iii. I'JO, t. 47 ; (iruv, 

 1. c."^ — Sandy low ground, near the coaat, Florida to Louisiana ; 11. May. 



I. parvijQorurQ, Vent. Leaves elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 3 or 4 inches 

 long: petals 6 tff 11, oval, concave," ascending, yellowish, only quarter inch long: stamens 

 commonly only as many as petals. — Descr. V\. Nouv. Jard. Cels, t. 22; Miciix. Fl. i. 32C ; 

 Baill. Hist. PI. i. 151, f. 191-194. Ci/mlwsleinon parvijlorus, Spach, Hist. Veg. \ii. 44G.— 

 E. Florida, and S. E. Georgia ? (Cuhii, Wright.) 



3. MAGN6LIA, (Plum.) L. (Pierre Magnol of Montpellier, dird 171.0. 

 The original Magnolia of Plumier is Talauma of W. Indies.) — Trees, or some 

 shrubs, of Atlantic U. S., Mexico, E. Asia, and Himalayan Mountains, with 

 mostly large showy flowers, in spring and early summer; the cone-like fruits 

 rose-colored at maturity, and seed-coat scarlet. Leaves upright in the bud. A 

 spathaceous stipular bract at first enclosing the flower-bud. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & 

 Gen. BO. 456 ; Juss. Gen. 281 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 59, t. 23, 24.» 



M. obovIta, Thunb. (M. purpurea, Curtis), and M. coyspfciT.\, Salisb., Chino^Japancse 

 si)ecies, hardy or nearly so in the Atlantic States, are planted for ornament. The peculiar 

 small-flowered M. fuscAta, of China, is cultivated at the South. 



§ 1. Leaves coriaceous^nd at the South persistent, not very large, never cor- 

 date : flower-buds silky : flowers very sweet-scented, white, turning fuscous in 

 age : petals roundish to obovate. Species at the South called Bay and Laukel. 



M. grandiflora, L. Large tree when well developed: leaves thick and firm, hright greon 

 and lucid al)ove, ferrugiueous-pubescent beneath or in age glabrate but dull, oblong to <il>o- 

 vate, 5 to 10 inches long: stipules adnate only to the ba.se of short petiole : perils 3 or 4 

 inches long, thick, barely .spreading in anthesis : carpels pubescent, numerous ; the cone of 

 fruit 4 inches long. —Syst. Nat. cd. 10, ii. 1082, & Spec. ed. 2, i. 755 (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 61 ; 

 Trew, Ehret. t. .33) ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t 518; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1952; Michx. f. Hist. Arb! 

 Am. iii. 71, t. 1; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 42; Sargent, U. S. 10th Con.sus, ix. 19.< .1/. Vir- 

 (jiniana, \a.T. faetida, L. Si>oc. i. 536, in part.^ — Woods in fertile soil, coxst of N. Carolina 

 to Texas, never far in the interior; 11. April to June. 



M. glauca, L. (Swket Bay, AVhite Bat. White Laituel, &c. of the South Beavkr- 

 TitEi:.) Small tree, northwardly a tall shrub with leaves deciduous : petioles slender ; leaves 

 from oval to broadly lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long, gl.ancous and at first silkv-jtubc^cent 

 beneath : corolla almost globular in anthesis, open oidy when |):ist prime ; the petals inch or 

 two long; carpels glabrous, rather few: fruit-cone inch or !«o long. — Svst. N:it. .-.i. lo, 



1 A synopsis of the species of this fjenns is given by Ma.\inio\vic/. in his Diaj,'. Plant. N . ' 

 vii. 716, Melang. Biol. Acad. lu)p. St. Peter.-sb. xii. 71i.i. 



2 Garden, x.xxvi. 150, t. 714. 



3 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 1, t. 1-12. 



4 Aud Gray, PI. For. Trees N. A. t. 1. 



6 Add syn. M. fcettda, Sargent, Card. & For. ii. 615, k Silv. i. .% t. 1, 1. Prof. 3.iixcnt extends 

 tlie range to S. Arkansas. 



