172 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



North Carolina and Georgia, and (by Dr. IMohr in 1880 or 1883) 

 in Winston Connty. Ala. (See Mohr's Plant Life, ])p. 72, 505.) 



More recently what is believed to be the true Magnolia cor- 

 data has been found in eastern central Georgia by sons of the late 

 P. J. Berckmans, nurseryman, and in vSumter and Choctaw Coun- 

 ties, Alabama, by W. W. Ashe. (See Sudworth's Check List, 

 p 121, also Ashe -1 in bibliography.) On a visit to Tuscaloosa in 

 August, 192G, Mr. Ashe reported having just found the same thing 

 a few miles from Duncanville, in Tuscaloosa County. 



The supposed true M. cordata is none too distinct from M . 

 acuininata, and if the trees formerly referred to it are intermediate, 

 they furnish an additional argument against its validity as a spe- 

 cies. Further study might reveal some real differences, though. 



LIRIODENDRON, Linnaeus. (Tulip TrEE). 



Liriodendron Tulipifera, L. Yellow (or sometimes White) 

 Poplar. (Sometimes called W^hitewood and Tulip Poplar 

 in the North.) 



One of our largest, handsomest and commonest deciduous 

 trees ; too well known to require any description. It grows re- 

 markably straight and tall, sometimes several feet in diameter and 

 100 feet tall. There are rumors or traditions of trees as much as 

 ten feet in diameter ; but such a giant would hardly escape the 

 lumberman now, unless it was hollow, and the largest one I have 

 seen in Alabama was about five feet, in Elmore County. 



The uses of this tree are legion. It is planted a good deal in 

 parks, especially in the North, and horticulturists recognize three 

 or four varieties. The wood is light, soft, and easily worked, with 

 a close straight grain, and is used for many of the same purposes 

 as the pines. Its principal uses are for "mill-work", boxes and 

 crates, furniture, bee-hives, pumps, ])orch columns, and parts of 

 wagons, carriages, and cotton gins. It serves to a lesser extent 

 for shingles, weatherboards, fence-palings, baskets, crossties, 

 wood-pulp, and brick-kiln fuel. In Middle Tennessee, where pines 

 are scarce, the poplar largely takes their place, and many log cab- 

 ins are said to have been built of it. It is being used for cross- 



