118 WARBLING FLYCATCHER. 



Adult Female. Plate CXVIIL Fig. 2. 



The Female, which is slightly smaller, resembles the male in colouring. 



The Swamp Magnolia. 



Magnolia gladca, Wild. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 1256 — Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. 



p. 381 Mich. Arbr. Forest de I'Amer. Septentr. vol. iii. p. 78, pL 2 — Poly- 



ANDRIA PoLYGYNiA, Linn. Magnoli.«, Juss. 



The Swamp Magnoha is abundant in all marshy places from Louisi- 

 ana to Connecticut, growing in groves in and around the swamps. It 

 seldom exceeds twenty feet in height, and is more usually eight or ten. 

 The flowers have an agreeable odour, but are of short duration, although 

 the tree continues blooming for several months. It is not unfrequent to 

 find it, in the Southern States, in flower during autumn. The species is 

 characterized by its ovate leaves, which are glaucous beneath, and its ob- 

 ovate petals, narrowed at the base. It bears different names in the diffe- 

 rent States, such as Swamp Laurel, Swamp Sassafras, Sweet Bay, White 

 Bay, &c. 



