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furnished withawing. They may be sown in autumn 
in loose soil, and protected by a covering of leayes or 
straw. 
LIRIODENDRON—TULIP TREE. 
Natural Order, Magnoliacee. 
Sepals, three, reflexed; corolla, bell-shaped, six 
petalled; anthers, linear; pistils, flat, long, and 
narrow; carpels, one or two-seeded, disposed in 
spikes, deciduous, drawn out into a wing at the apex. 
Lirisdendron tulipifera—Tulip Tree, White Wood. 
This tree is the only species of its genus, and it is 
a most magnificent one. It sometimes reaches the 
height of one hundred and forty feet, with a diameter 
of eight or nine feet, and, excepting the Sycamore or 
Buttonwood, is the largest and loftiest deciduous tree 
of the America forests. The name of Poplar or 
Yellow Poplar, by which it is called in many parts of 
the United States, is altogether misapplied, since it 
has no resemblance to, nor relationship with, the 
the Poplar family. 
The Tulip Tree is found from New England to the 
Gulf of Mexico. It is multiplied in the Western , 
States where the climate is not too severe, the soil 
deep and fertile, and the country mostly originally 
covered with forests. It iscommonin alarge portion 
of Michigan, and in Southern Illinois; but although 
the soil and climate appear suited to its growth, it is 
a stranger to the prairie regions of [Illinois and Iowa, 
probably for the reason that it was unable to with- 
