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* Leaves all scattered along the branches ; leaf-buds silky. 



1. M. virginiana L. (Small or Laurel M., Sweet Bay.) Leaves oval to 

 broadly lanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, obtuse, glaucous beneath ; flower globular^ 

 white, 5 cm. long, very fragrant ; petals broad ; cone of fruit small, ellipsoid. 

 (M. glauca L.) — Swamps, from near Cape Ann and N. Y. south w., near the 

 coast; in Pa. as far w. as Cumberland Co. May-July. — Shrub 1-6 m. high, 

 with thickish leaves, which farther south are evergreen. 



2. M. acuminata L. (Cucumber Tree.) Leaves thin, oblong, pointed, green 

 and a little pubescent beneath, 13-25 cm. long ; flower slender-bell-shaped, 

 glaucous-green tinged with yellow, 5 cm, long ; cone of fruit 5-7 era. long, 

 cylindrical. — Rich woods, w. N. Y. to 111., Ark. and south w. May, June. — Tree 

 18-27 m. high ; fruit when young slightly resembling a small cucumber. 



<--3. M. macrophylla Michx. (Great-leaved M.) Leaves obovate-oblong, 



cordate at the narrowed base, pubescent and white beneath ; flower open-hell- "^ 



shaped, white, with a purple spot at base; petals ovate, 15 cm. long; cone of (J^ 



fruit ovoid. — Ky., Ark., and southw. May, June. — Tree 6-12 m. high; ^X; 



leaves 3-9 dm. long, somewhat clustered on the flowering branches. s- 



* * Leaves crowded on the summit of the flowering branches in an umbrella-like 

 circle; leaf-buds glabrous; flowers white, slightly scented. 



4. M. trip§tala L. (Umbrella Tree.) Leaves obovate-lanceolate, pointed at 

 both ends, soon glabrous, 3-6 dm. long ; petals 9-12 cm. long. {M. Umbrella 

 Desr.) — S. Pa. to Ky., Mo., and southw. May. — Small tree. 



5. M. Fraseri Walt. (Ear-leaved Umbrella Tree.) Leaves oblong- 

 obovate or spatulate, auriculate at the base, glabrous, 2-5 dm. long ; petals 

 obovate-spatulate, with narrow claws, 1 dm. long. — Swamps and along streams, 

 Va. and Ky., along the Alleghenies, and southw. May. — A slender tree 9-15 

 m. high. 



2. LIRIODENDRON L. Tulip Tree 



Sepals 3, reflexed. Petals 6, in two rows, making a bell-shaped corolla. 

 Anthers linear, opening outward. Pistils flat and scale-form, narrow, imbricating 

 and cohering in an elongated cone, dry, falling away whole, like a samara or key, 

 indehiscent, 1-2-seeded in the small cavity at the base. (Name from Xipiov, lily 

 or tulip, and bivbpov, tree.) 

 <^ 1. L. Tulipifera L. — Leaves very smooth, with 2 lateral lobes near the base, ^ 

 and 2 at the apex, which appears as if cut off abruptly by a broad shallow ^ 

 notch ; petals 5 cm. long, greenish yellow marked with orange ; cone of fruit n 



7.5 cm. long. —Rich soil, Worcester Co., Mass., to Ont., Wise, and southw. Q 



May, June. — A most beautiful tree, sometimes 40 m. high and 2-8 m. in diam- ^ 

 eter in the Western and Southern States, the timber commonly called Poplar or ^i 

 White Wood. n 



CALYCANTHAcEAE (Calycanthus Family) 



Shrubs with opposite entire leaves, no stipules, the sepals and petals simila*- 

 and indefinite, the anthers adnate and extrorse_ and the cotyledons convolute; 

 the fruit like a rose-hip. Chiefly represented by the genus 



1. CALYCANTHUS L. Carolina Allspice 



Calyx of many sepals, united below into a fleshy inversely conical cup (with 

 some leaf-like bractlets growing from it) ; the lobes lanceolate, mostly colored 

 like the petals, which are similar, in many rows, thickish, inserted on the top 

 of the closed calyx-tube. Stamens numerous, inserted just within the petals, 

 short; some of the inner ones sterile (destitute of anthers). Pistils several or 

 many, inclosed in the calyx-tube, inserted on its base and inner face. — Aromatic 

 shrubs with brownish purple flowers terminating leafy shoots. (Name com- 

 posed of KdXv^, a cup or calyx, and dvdos, flower.) Butneria Duham. 



