Magnolia 1589 



the glabrous branchlets ^ have broad oval leaf-scars, with numerous dots arranged in 

 two or three series. The buds are glabrous, glaucous. 



Flowers on slender glaucous glabrous stalks, cup-shaped, eight to nine inches 

 across, disagreeable in odour ; sepals light green, becoming reflexed ; petals, six or 

 nine, coriaceous, white, ovate, pointed, those of the outer row much longer and 

 broader than those of the inner rows. Fruit, 2^ to 4 in. long, glabrous, pink. 



This species, which has the leaves crowded at the summits of the flowering 

 branches, is widely distributed in the region of the Alleghany Mountains, from the 

 valley of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania southwards to Kentucky, Alabama, 

 Tennessee, north-eastern Mississippi, and Arkansas, and extending nearly to the 

 coast in the south Atlantic States. It usually grows on the banks of mountain 

 streams or on the edges of swamps. (A. H.) 



This species was introduced into England in 1752, and seems to have been 

 commoner in Loudon's time than it is now. He mentions trees at Cobham (Kent), 

 Syon, Golden Grove, Croome, and Walton House, 30 to 36 ft. high, which cannot 

 now be found ; and states that at Deepdene self-sown seeds had produced plants. 

 We have only seen a few small trees, none of which look very thriving, at Kew ; 

 Holkham ; Stanage Park, Herefordshire ; and Canford, Hants. (H. J. E.) 



MAGNOLIA MACROPHYLLA 



Magnolia macrophylla, Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. i. 327 (1803); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. i. 271 

 (1838); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. i. 11 tt. 7, 8 (1890), and Trees N. Amer. 320 (1905). 



A deciduous tree, attaining in America 30 to 50 ft. in height and 5 ft. in girth. 

 Young branchlets covered with a dense short pubescence, retained in part in the 

 second year. Leaves, the largest of any of the species in cultivation, 12 to 25 in. 

 long, 6 to 10 in. broad, obovate-oblong, acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate or 

 subcordate at the truncate base ; upper surface bright green, glabrous ; lower 

 surface bluish white, with a scattered fine pubescence, which is denser on the midrib. 



Flowers, on stout tomentose stalks, white, cup-shaped, fragrant, 10 to 12 in. 

 across when expanded ; sepals membranous, much narrower than the six ovate 

 concave thick creamy white petals, which become reflexed above the middle. Fruit 

 pubescent, pink, nearly 3 in. long. (A. H.) 



This species is a rare tree in the south-eastern United States, occurring from 

 North Carolina and south-eastern Kentucky, southwards to Florida, Alabama, 

 Mississippi, Louisiana, and central Arkansas. It usually grows in sheltered valleys 

 in deep rich soil. 



It was introduced into England in 1800. None of the trees at Arley, 

 Chiswick, and White Knights, mentioned by Loudon, can now be found ; but there 

 is a fine specimen at Claremont, which, in 19 10, was 40 to 45 ft. in height, and 

 2 ft. II in. in girth.' (H. J. E.) 



1 Cf. Foerste, in Bot. Gaz. xx. 80, t. 8 (1895). ^ Bean, in Kew Bull. 1910, p. 163. 



