MAGNOLIACEE—MAGNOLIA FAMILY 
SWAMP MAGNOLIA. SMALL MAGNOLIA. 
SWEET BAY 
Magnolia glanca, 
Magnolia was named by Linnzus in honor of Pierre Magnol, an 
eminent botanist who lived in the seventeenth century. Glauca, 
glaucous, refers to the under surface of the leaf. 
A small tree, nearly evergreen, with slender trunk. In the Gulf 
States it reaches the height of seventy feet, with a trunk two or three 
feet in diameter, but at the north it is reduced toa shrub. Roots 
fleshy. Prefers swamps and wet soils. Ranges from Essex County, 
Massachusetts, to Long Island, from New Jersey to Florida, west 
in the Gulf region to Texas. 
Bark,—Light brown, scaly ; on young trees light gray, smooth. 
Branchlets green at first, downy, later reddish brown; bitter, aro- 
matic. 
Wood.—Light brown tinged with red, sapwood cream- white. 
Sparingly used in manufactures at the south. Sp. gr.0.5035; weight 
of cu. ft., 31.38 Ibs. 
Winter Buds.—Terete, pointed, downy, formed of successive pairs 
of stipules, each pair enveloping the leaf just above. Flower-bud 
enclosed in a stipular, caducous bract. 
Leaves.—Alternate, simple, feather-veined, subpersistent, four to 
six inches long, one and one-half to two and one-half inches broad, 
oblong or oval, rounded or pointed at base, entire, obtuse at apex ; 
midrib conspicuous. They come out of the bud conduplicate, pale 
green, covered with long silvery hairs; when full grown are a soft 
leathery texture, bright green, smooth and shining above, pale, glau- 
cous beneath, sometimes almost white. At the north they fall iate 
in November, at the south the leaves remain with little change of 
color until pushed off by the new leaves in the spring. Petiole short, 
slender. 
