XLII. 
MAGNOLIA AURICULARIS. 
Eared Magnolia. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis, vide sub No. 5. 
# Calyx nullus. 
M. J omg gracilibus: foliorum laminis ern basi auritis, subtus lavibus cum rore 
auco: pedunculis longis: petalis ve 
M. ey Desrouss. in Encycl. Bot. tom. 3. p. 673. M. auriculata. Bartr. Trav. p. 339. 
M. F . Walt. Fl. Car. p. 159. cum Ie, 
Sponte nascentem ad origines fluminis Savannah abunde, montibus altissimis, legit G. Bartram. 
Floret fine Mati, Junio. 
One of the rarest species in the English gardens, ooh which Mr. Hooker is also indebted to 
E. Woodford, Esq. ‘This does not grow so high as some of the others, seldom exceeding 25 or 
30 feet in its native soil It was discovered by William f Bartram on the high ridges, which sepa~ 
rate the waters of the Savannah river from those of the Tennessée, near cascades and rivulets. 
Stems several from one root, ash-coloured, round, and smooth while young: the branches come 
out irregularly and are incurved, forming a head more or less conical. Stipules attached to the 
sp asand nearly their whole length. Leaves from 7 to 12 inches long, in a rich humid soil even 
2 feet long, from 3 to 5 inches broad or more, frondose, which term I adopt from Jacquin to 
express that the leaves are approximated near the extremities of the branches, being more thinly 
scattered below, deciduous: Petiole reddish, short and very slender: Lamina or expanded 
of the leaf light green on its upper surface, covered with a fine glaucous dew or meal sca 08% 
obtuse, 
very =~ and a little waved. Flowers fragrant er great when they firs at eduncle 
in m 
cimen 2 inches long, marked with the scars of two gemmaceo aga a 
still relaadaing close to the — smooth. Petals 33 to 4 inches long, white bu 
to adull yellow, more or with red near the base, obovate viegriieeh ‘ladle which 
last character is particularly rb in dried s ens. 
im 
es is, 1 have lately seen two more Magnolias with auriculated leaves, a a = 
r. Lyon. ‘Ons of these is the Pyramidata of William Bartram, who discovered 
under surface, answering most exactly to Michaux’s pi pecan of ie Auriculata, 80 
I suspect he has confounded it with the species es now figured. The other is the Macropyla of 
that indefatigable botanist, discovered by him in the Western regions of the river Tennessée: it 
resembles very much the J'ripetala in habit, but may be instantly —" “” pubescence 
of its foliage. 
