326 POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA 



lYees: leaves alternate, entire, when young sheathed by opposite caducous 

 stipules; (lowers solitary, terminal. Aat. Ord. 15. Limit. Magnoliace^, 

 1. M. olauca, L, Loaves lancc-oval, glaucous beneath ; petals 9 to 

 12, obovate, concave. Jiech, Hot. p. 15. Icon, JILv.f. Sylva. 2. tab. 5?. 

 Glaucous Magnolia. Vulgd — Magnolia. Swamp Sassafras. 



Stem 10 to fifteen, and sometimes 30 feet high, branching wit): a smooth whitish 

 or glaucous bark. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long, and an inch and a half to 2 inches 

 wide, nearly elliptic, rather acute, sometimes obtuse, shining green above, very 

 glaucous beneath, and when young the under surface clothed with a glaucous silky 

 pubescence ; petioles about 3 fourths of an inch long. Flowers very fragrant, on 

 thick clavate pubescent peduncles about half an inch in length. Sejxils oblong, 

 concave, rough ish-dotted, as long as the petals. Petals while, an inch to an inch 

 and a half long, obovate. Stamens numerous ; filaments short, with the point 

 extending above the adnate anthere. Ovaries collected in an ovoid cone ; styles 

 very short, recurved. Carpels opening longitudinally. Seeds obovate, covered 

 with a purple fleshy arillus, falling out of the carpels when mature, and hanging 

 for some time by a long filiform funiculus. 



Hub. Swamps, and moist woodlands: very rare. Ft. Juno. Fr. September. 



Obs. This delightful little tree, though frequent In the swamps of New Castle 

 County, on the South of us, is extremely rare in Chester Counly, There is a 

 ringle specimen, of unusually large growth (between 30 and 40 feet high), which 

 was detected by Mr. Samuel Peirce, in a woods In K. Marlborough, near his res- 

 idence,— where it has every appearance of being indigenous. Mr. JofiBUA 

 Hoopes informs mo he has seen it on Beaver Creek,— a tributary of the Brandy. 

 wine, above Downingtown. The bark is aromatic and bitter; and doubtless wor- 

 thy of notice as a tonic. Six additional species of this splendid genus are natives 

 of the U. State 8. 



t t t Carpels dry, indehiscent. 



259, LIRIODENDRON. L. JYutt. Gen. 480. 

 [Greek, Leirioyi^ a lily, and Dcndron, a tree ; from its lily-like flowers ] 



Calyx of 3 pctaloid deciduous sepals. Petals mostly 6. Carpels 

 samara-like, densely imbricated in a cone, 1 to 2 -seeded, not opening. 



Trees: leaves alternate, lobed, when young sheathed by large opposite cadu- 

 cous stipules ; flowers solitary, terminal. Nat. Ord. 15. Limit. Magnoi.iacejb. 



1. L. tulipifera, /,. Leaves dilated, subcordatc at base, 3-lobed, 

 the middle lobe broad, emarginately truncate. Beck, Mot. p. 15. Ico.>, 

 Mx. f. Sylva. 2. tab. 61. 

 Tulip-bearing Liriodexdron. Vulgo — Poplar. Tulip-Poplar. 



Stem 60 or 80 to 100 feet or more in height, and often 4 or 5 feet in diameter, 

 old trees with spreading branches at summit, and often a great height without 

 branches, the young trees with the branches forming regular conical tops. Duds 

 lar?c, compressed, obovate. Leaves 8 to five inches long, and 4 to 6 or 7 inches 

 broad, nearly quadrangular in their outline, smooth, shining green aboveypalcr be- 

 Death, rounded or subcordatc at base, with a short diverging acumflfele lobe 

 (sometimes 2) on each side, and the broad central lobe emarginately truncate,— 

 thus forming a somewhat 4-lobed leaf; petioles 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers large 

 (about 2 inches long), campanulate, each with 2 caducous bracts at base. Sejwls 

 obovate-oblong, concave, pale yellowish green, as long as the petals, spreading, 

 and at length reflexed, deciduous. Petals lance-obovate, mostly obtuse, greenish- 

 yellow, stained with reddish orange below the middle. Stamens in a simple series, 

 shorter than the petals ; filaments with a lance-ovate point extending above the 



