POPULAR FLORA, 117 
2, MAGNOLIA FAMILY. Order MAGNOLIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, with aromatic or strong-scented and bitter bark, and alternate simple 
leaves, which are never toothed ; large, thin stipules form the covering of the buds, but 
fall off early. Flowers large, single at the ends of the branches; their leaves in threes, 
viz. 8 sepals colored like the petals, and 6 petals in two ranks or 9 in three ranks, their 
margins overlapping in the bud. Stamens very many, on the receptacle, with long anthers 
occupying; as it were, the side of the filament. Pistils many, packed and partly grown 
together one above the other, so as 
to make a sort of cone in fruit. — 
We have only two genera. 
1. Stipules flat, not adhering to the 
leafstalk. Petals 6, greenish-or- 
ange. Filaments slender. Pistils 
overlying each other and grown to- 
gether to make a spindle-shaped 
cone, dry when ripe, and sepa- 
rating -into a sort of key-fruit. 
Leaves somewhat 8-lobed, and as 
if cut off at the end. One species 
only is known, the 
(Liriodéndron Tulipifera) TULIP-TREE. 
2. Stipules making around and pointed 
bud, adhering to the lower part of 
the leaf-stalk. Petals 6 to 9. Fil-. 
aments below the anther very short. 
Cone of fruit rose-red and fleshy 
when ripe, the pistils opening on 
the back, the scarlet fleshy-coated 
seeds hanging by delicate and very 256, Small Laurel-Magnolia. 257. A atamen magnified. 258. Its cone of fruit, 
elastic threads, MAGNOLIA. the seeds hanging as they drop. 
Magnolia. Magnolia. 
Our wild species divide into Laurel-Magnolias, Cucumber-trees, and Umbrella-trees. 
§1. LAUREL-MAGNOLIAS. Leaves thick, evergreen at the South; leaf-buds silky; flowers.rather 
globe-shaped, appearing through the summer, white, very fragrant 
1. Great Lauvret-Macenouis. Tree with leaves deep-green and shining above, rusty beneath when 
young; flower very large. S. It has stood the winter as far north as Philadelphia. 1. grandiflora. 
2. SmaLL Laurex-M. (or Wnite Bay). Shrub or small tree; leaves oblong, whitish beneath; flower 
about 2’ broad. Swamps. E. & S. MM. glauca. 
§ 2. CUCUMBER-TREES. Leaves thin, scattered along the branches, a little downy beneath, buds 
silky; flowers not sweet-scented, nor showy, nor very large, appearing in spring. 
8. Common CucumBER-M. A tall tree; leaves oval or oblong, pointed; flowers greenish; young fruit 
resembling a very small cucumber. Cornmon W. M. acuminata. 
