Magnolia 1583 



15-17. Branchlets pubescent. 



15. Magnolia denudata,'Y\m.vi!oQ.r%. China, Seep. 1597. 



Branchlets with silvery appressed pubescence at the tip, elsewhere glabrous. 

 Leaves obovate or oval, and broadest at the middle, acute or shortly acuminate 

 at the apex, tapering at the base. 



16. Magnolia conspicua,'^2X\^\ixy. China. Seep. 1596. 



Branchlets more or less covered with appressed pubescence. Leaves obovate, 

 cuspidate at the apex, usually rounded at the base. 



17. Magnolia stellata, Maximowicz. Japan. See p. 1599. 



Branchlets more or less covered with appressed pubescence. Leaves obovate- 

 oblong or oblanceolate, gradually tapering to the base, variable at the apex. 



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MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA 



Magnolia grandiflora, Linnaeus, Syst. ii. 1082 (1759); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. i. 261 (1838); 



Sargent, in Bot. Gaz. xliv. 226 (1907). 

 Magnolia fostida, Sargent, in Garden and Forest, ii. 615 (1889), Silva N. Amer. i. 3, tt. i, 2 (1890), 



and Trees N. Amer. 316 (1905). 



An evergreen tree, attaining in America 60 to 80 ft. high, with a straight trunk 

 occasionally 12 ft. in girth. Bark with thin appressed scales. Young branchlets 

 covered with rusty red tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, persistent two years, 6 to 8 

 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide, obovate-oblong or narrowly elliptic, with a short acuminate 

 apex ; upper surface dark green, shining, glabrous ; lower surface covered more or 

 less with a rusty brown tomentum, or occasionally glabrescent. 



Flowers, on stout tomentose stalks, fragrant, 7 to 8 in. across ; the three 

 petaloid sepals and six (rarely nine to twelve) petals creamy white, ovate or oval, 

 narrowed at the base. Fruit rusty tomentose. 



Several varieties ^ have originated in European nurseries : — 



1. Var. exoniensis, Loudon. Rather fastigiate in habit, with broadly elliptical 

 leaves, rusty tomentose beneath. It begins to flower when only a few feet high. 

 This variety appears to differ scarcely from var. lanceolata, Aiton,^ ex Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1952 (18 1 8), though Loudon kept it distinct. 



2. Var. angustifolia, Loudon. Leaves lanceolate, undulate in margin. Intro- 

 duced from Paris in 1825. 



3. Var. Gallissoniensis, Simon- Louis, Cat. 59 (1869). According to Rehder,* 

 this variety has proved the hardiest in Europe ; and Mouillefert* says that it makes 

 the finest standard tree. 



4. A variety with double flowers is known ; and this peculiarity has been 

 observed as a sport on a tree of the ordinary kind in England.^ 



M. grandiflora is a native of the south-eastern United States, extending from 

 North Carolina along the coast to Florida, and westward through the Gulf States to 



1 Dr. J. Bedelian of Nikita, in the Crimea, writes concerning the great variability of this species in Card. Chron. xlii. 

 390 (1907). Cf. also iUd. xliii. 83 (1908). 2 Hori. Kern. ii. 251 (1789). 



s In Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 968 (1900). 

 * TraiU des Arhres, L 112(1892). ^ Cf. Gard. Chron. viii. 223 (1890). 



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