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The Germen are numerous, ovate-oblong, covering the clubbed 

 receptacle. The Stales are recurved, contorted and very 

 ihort. The Stigmas ^xq from one end of the ftyle to the 

 other, and villofe. 



The Seed-vejjel is an ovate cone, covered with capfiiles^ which 

 are comprefTed, roundiili, fcarce imbricated, crowded, acute, 

 one cell'd, two vaiv'd, feffile, gaping outward and perma- 

 nent. 



The Seeds are folitary, roundiil>, berried, and hanging by a 

 thread from the bofom of each fcaie of the cone. 



The Species an, 



1. Magnolia acuminata. Long leaved Mountain 



Magnolia, or Cucumber Tree. 



This tree grows fometimes to the height of thirty 

 or forty feet, and to eighteen inches or more in di- 

 ameter; dividing into leveral branches towards the 

 top, garnifhed with large, oblong, (harp-pointed 

 leaves. The flowers come out early in the fpring 

 and are compofed of twelve large bluifli coloured 

 petals. The feed-veffels are about three inches long, 

 fomewhat refembhng a fmall Cucumber; from whence 

 the inhabitants whpfe it grows natural, call it the 

 ^^ucumber-tree. 



2. Magnolia glauca. Small Magnolia^ or Swamp 



Sqffafras. 



This grows naturally in low, moift, or fwampy 

 ground, often to the height of fifteen or twenty 

 feet; covered with a whitiHi foiooth bark, and di- 

 viding into feveral branches; furniihed with entire, 

 oblong, oval leaves, of a dark green on their upper 

 furface, but whitifh and a little hairy undcrne,ath. 

 The flowers are produced at the ends of the branch- 

 es, compofed of fix concave, white petal,s, of an 

 agreeable fmell; and arc fucceedcd by oyal, or fome- 



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