Liriodendron. MA(;N()M ACK.K. CI 



& Spec. ed. 2, i. 756 ; Walt. Car. 159 ; Michx. Fl. i. 327 ; Michx. f. 1. c. 90, t. 5 > .»/. /",..„. 



dosa, Salisb. Prodr. 379. — Iii woods, S. reiinsyhaiiia to N. Caruliiia, Alaltaina, and llirmif^li 



Keutucky aud Tcimessee to S. W, Arkan«a.s; H. May and .June. Als<j calli-d Kik-winnl iu 



some places. 



§ 4. Leaves membranaceous and deciduous, niediiKi-e, rather dull preen, not 

 appro.ximate in umbrella fasliion on the branches: Howers rather small, grecnihli 

 to light yellow : petals oblong, commonly not over (! , erect in anthesit*, nmcli 

 longer than the small sepals: carpels glabrous, in fruit pointless, the styles or 

 stigmas filiform and deciduous : fruit-cone comparatively small and narrow, often 

 torosc, the shape and appearance when green like a gherkin, whence the nanjc of 



CuCU.MBEIi-TIiEES. 



M. acuminata, L. (Cuccmrkr-tuee.) Tall tree with .'Straight much prolonged trunk : 

 leaves light greeu, oval or ulilong, more or less acuminate, and witli either nmndi-d or 

 acutish base, (3 to 9 inches long, soft-pubescent, especially l)fneath, glabrate above : j>etid.s 

 2 inciics long, dull green and glaucous, or tinged with yellow. — Sy.st. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 1082, 

 & Spec. ed. 2, i. 756; Michx. Fl. i. 328; Michx. f. 1. c."82, t. 3; s'im.s. Hot. Mag. t. 2427; 

 Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 20.- M. Vircjiiiia, var. ttcmiilnuta, L. Spec. i. 536. 7W//»- 

 usirum Americunnm, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii. 483. — Woods in deep soil, W. New York, or 

 barely in Canada at Niagara, to Illinois, and south to Arkansas, Alabama, aud Georgia, 

 especially in the mountains; H. May and June. 



M. COrdata, Michx. a small and branching tree ; leaves more pubescent, at least beneath, 

 ovate or oval, little or not at all acuminate, obtuse or rounded at b;ise, only on vigorous 

 shoots subcordate: petals cream-yellow. — Fl. i. 328; Michx. f. 1. c. 87, t. 4; Edw. Bot. Keg. 

 t. 325; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 474; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 20." 

 Tii/ip(tstrum Ainericanuin, var. siibcordutuin, Spach, 1. c. 485. — Georgia near Augusia aud 

 Alabama, rare; ti. Ajnil or May. 



4. LIRIODENDRON, L. Tulip-tree. (Actptos-, lily, ScrSpoi-, tree.) — 

 Spec. i. 535. Earlier in the form Liriodendritm, Hort. Cliff. 223, & Gen. 

 no. 960. TuUpifera, Pluk. Aim. 379, & Pliytogr. t. G8, 117, 348; Catesb. 

 Car. i. t. 48. — Conduplicate leaves in the bud, each placed upside down by cur- 

 vature of the petiole, and enclosed along with the younger parts by its flat stipules 

 applied face to face. Single or perhaps two species,* deciduous-leaved. 



L. Tulipifera, L (Tulip-tree, White-wood, also wrongly called Poplar.) Tree 50 to 

 200 feet higli, with large straight trunk : herbage glabrous ; leaves long-jKnioled, bread, 

 subcordate, obscurely angulate, 4-lobed and emarginate-truncattf': flower-bud spatliaceou.s- 

 bractcate by the last pair of stipules, these caducous: petals very broad, greenish yellow 

 marked with orange, inch or two long: cone of fruit aliout 3 inches long. — Spec. i. .535; 

 Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 275; Schk. Handb. t. 147; Nouv. Duham. iii. 62, t. 18; B.arton. Veg. 

 Mat. Med. t. 8 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. ii. t. 31 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 64, t. 25.*— Woods of deep soil. 

 AV. New England,^ through New York and adjacent borders of Canada to Wisconsin, south 

 to Arkansas and Florida ; fl. early summer. (China.) 



1 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 1.3, t. 9, -10. 



2 Add Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. ii. 29, t. 29; Sargent, Silv. i. 7, t. 4, f). 



8 Prof. Sargent believes this to be merely a variety of the precedinjr, and ha.s published it m 

 M. acmninala, var. cordata, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 3, xxxii. 473, Ganl. & For. ii. 338, & Silv. L 8, 

 t. 6, where it is stated that the exact form of the cultivated plant li.as not been rfdiscoverc<l, although 

 specimens approaching it are not infrequent upon the Blue Ridge in Carolina and in Northern 

 Alabama. 



* But one species ; see Hemsl. Gard. Chron. ser. 3, vi. 718. 



5 Add Garden, xxxiv. 31, f. on p. 42; Lloyd Bro.s. Am. Drugs & Me<1. ii. 3, t. 26 & f. 106-111, 

 with map of distribution; Sargent, Silv. i. i9, t. 13, 14; Holm, Proc. U. S. Nat. .Mus. xiii. i:U3.'., 

 t. 4-9, showing the extraonlinary variability in shape of the leaves; Gniy, PL For. Treej* N. A. t. 8. 



.6 Eastward to Rhode Island, Thurber, and a»ljacent Massachu.setts according to Kusscil, Ganl. & 

 For. ii. S2. 



