Il. WINTERA'CEZ: ILLI/cIUM, 21 
Florida to Louisiana, in swamps. Height 
4ft.to 6ft. Introduced in 1766. Flowers 
dark reddish purple, with the odour of anise ; 
April to June. Fruit none in England. 
ae dee leaves reddish brown, dropping in 
une. 
A compact, many-stemmed, bushy, ever- 
green, slow-growing shrub, attaining, in the 
neighbourhood of London, the height of 6 or 
8 feet or upwards, and flowering every year. 
The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, 
pointed at both extremities, smooth, shining, 
and, in common with the whole plant, have a 
rich reddish hue. The flowers are numerous, 
solitary, and terminal ; and bear some general 
resemblance to those of Calycanthus fléridus. 
The manner in which the plant is propagated 
in the London nurseries is, generally, by form- 
ing stocls of it in a cold-pit, and laying down 
the shoots, which require two years to root 
sufficiently to admit of their being separated 
from the parent plant; but it is sometimes 
propagated by cuttings both of the young and 
of the old wood. This very handsome ever- : : 
green shrub is sufficiently hardy to have re- = SSS 
sisted the winter of 1837-8, in several situations * yy 
in the climate of London. So Uh are cepcenam: 
Orver III. MAGNOLILCEZ. 
Ord. CHAR. Calyx of 3 deciduous sepals. Corolla of 3—12 petals, dis- 
posed in threes. Anthers adnate, elongated. Carpe/s numerous, disposed 
along a spiked axis. Leaves destitute of pellucid dots, stipulate when young. 
Stipules convolute, and enclosing the unexpanded leaves. — Evergreen and 
deciduous trees and shrubs, chiefly natives of warm climates. 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen or deciduous; oblong, not 
dotted, more or less coriaceous, articulated distinctly with the stem, and, 
when expanding, rolled together like those of Ficus. Flowers large, mostly 
white or yellowish. Seeds roundish, large, red or brown. — The species 
hardy in British gardens are included under the genera Magndlia and 
Liriodéndron, the differential characters of which are as follows :— 
Macno‘“r4 L. Carpel dehiscent; that is, opening to admit the escape of the 
seed, , . : 
Liriope’npron L. Carpel indehiscent; that is, not opening to admit the 
escape of the seed. 
Genus I. 
ig] 4] lel lal 
MAGNO'LIA L. Tue Macnoria. Lin. Syst. Polyandria Polygynia. 
ntification. Lin. Gen., 690.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.79.; Don’s Mill. 1. p. 82. 
roe coal Magnolie, Fr. and Ital. ; Bieberbaum Hart., and Magnolle Willd., Ger. 
‘ * Derivation. The name Magndlia was given to this genus by Linnzus, in honour of Pierre Magnol, 
professor of medicine, and prefect of the botanic garden at Montpelier. The German name 
Bieberbaum, beaver wood, is applied generically by Hartweg in the Hortus Carlsruhensis ; but, in 
America, Beaver-wood appears to be applied a M. glatca. 
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