﻿PLATE DXVIIL 

 MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA. 



Large-Lowered Magnolia. 



CLASS XIII. ORDER VII. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cup3-leaved. Petals 6— 12. Capsules 2-valved, 

 tiled. Seeds berried, pendulous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Magnolia foliis persistentibus, lanceolatis, |j Magnolia with leaves persistent, lance-shap 



obtusis, marginibus cartilagineis, supra vi- and blunt, with cartilaginous margins c 



ridi-lucidis, subtus ferrugineis : corollis shining green on the upper surface, 



magnis, crassis, albis, odoratissimis. rusty-coloured beneath. Blossoms la 



thick, white, and very sweet-scented. 



Habitat in Florida et Carolina meridionali. II Native of Florida and South Carolina. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The chives and pointals. 



2. A chive. 



3. The same shown from the outer side. 



This odoriferous plant is figured by Catesby in his Caroliniensis, who describes it as a s a y ^ 

 eighty feet high ; that it perfumes the woods with its fragrance ; that its fruit is of a S 11 " 61 '^/^ 

 falling immediately to the ground, but hanging pendulous by small white threads about two ^ ^ 

 long, in which state it must still be a beautiful object. It very rarely, if ever, perfects its see ^ 

 country. Independent of its fine large sweet-scented flowers, it is a handsome evergreen. ^ 

 several variations of it in foliage. It succeeds well, trained up against a south wall. *r 

 so situated, on the premises of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, our figure was delineated. 



