9A2 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



size, the sides and roof of which were made 

 of a single tulip-tree, split into boards. 



Mr. Catesby, in his Natural History of 

 Carolina, says, there are some of these trees 

 in America which are thirty feet in circum- 

 ference. There is one inconvenience attend- 

 ing this wood, which is, that it contracts and 

 expands itself more than almost any other 

 timber. 



The bark is an aromatic medicinal agent : 

 it is often pounded, and given to horses that 

 have the bots. The roots of the tulip-tree 

 are said to be as efficacious in agues as 

 Jesuits' bark. 



In America, these trees are distinguishable 

 at a great distance, even when they have no 

 leaves upon them, as the boughs are unequal 

 and irregular, making several bends or elbows. 

 Kalm observes, that it is very agreeable, at the 

 end of May, to see one of these large trees, 

 with its singular leaves, covered for a fort- 

 night together with flowers, which have the 

 shape, size, and partly the colour of tulips. 



The leaves of this tree are generally from 

 four to five inches broad, and about the same 

 in length, of a singular shape, being what is 

 termed abrupt, truncatwn, appearing as if 

 their ends were cut off with scissars ; the 

 side lobes are rounded, and end in blunt 



