478 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Class XI II. 
1214. DILLE'NIA. ^F. 
7900 speciosa W. 
1215. ILLI'CIUM. W. 
7901 floridanum W. 
7902 parviflorum JV. 
DiLLENIA. 
large-flowered 5 O 
Aniseed-Tree. 
red-flowered *S | or 
vellow-floweredait j or 
1216. LIRIODEN'DRON. W. Tulip-tree. 
7903 tulip'ifera W. 
(2 obtusiloba 
1217. MAGNO'LIA 
7904 grandiflora W. 
a. clliptica 
13 obovdta 
y lanceoldta 
7905 glauca Ph. 
7906 longifolia Ph. 
7907 consp'icua H. K. 
M. Yulan Dec. 
7908 obovata W. 
7909 tomentosa Thunh. 
M. gracilis Thunb. 
M. Kobus Dec. 
7910pumila W. 
7911 fuscata H. K. 
common 
ohtuse-lobed 
DUleniacece. 
30 ... Y 
MagnoliacecB. 
8 ap.jn R 
6 my.jn Y 
MagnoliacecB. 
60 jn.jl Y.R 
60 jn.jl Y.u 
MagnoUacece. 
20 jn.o W 
20 jn.o 
20 jn.o 
20 jn.o 
20 jn.s 
20 jn.s 
30 f.ap 
S». 1—9. 
E. Indies 1800. 
Sv. 2—3. 
Florida 1766. 
Florida 1790. 
Sp. 1. 
N. Amer. 1663. 
Pensylv. 1663. 
Sp. 14—17. 
Carolina 1734. 
Carolina 1734. 
Carolina 1734. 
Carolina 1734. 
N. Amer. 1688. 
N. Amer. ... 
China 1789. 
6 ap.jn Pu 
20 mr.ap Pu 
China 
China 
1790. 
1804. 
C p.l Ex.bot. 1. t.2,; 
L s.p Bot. mag. 439 
L p.l Vent. eels. 22 
S s.l Bot. mag. 275 
S s.l 
L l.p 
L l.p Bot. rep. 518 
L l.p 
L l.p 
S p.l 
S p.l 
G p.l Bot. mag. 1621 
L p.l 
L p.l 
Mich. arb. t. 1 
Bot. mag. 2164 
Bot. mag. 390 
Par. lond. 87 
dwarf 3St 
brown-stalked *t 
/3 annoncefolia P. L. sinall-flowered 
7912 cordata Ph. 
7913 acuminata W. 
7914 tripetala W. 
M. umbrella Lam, 
7915 macrophylla Ph. 
7916 auriculata W. 
7917 pyramidata Ph. 
heart-leaved _ 
bluish-flowered 
umbrella ^ 
long-leaved ^ 
ear-leaved 5! 
pyramidal 
4 ja.d W 
3 ap.ray Br 
3 ap.my Br 
40 jn.jl Y.w 
60 my.jl 
30 my.jn 
Y.G 
W 
China 1786. 
China 1789. 
China 1804. 
N. Amer. 1801. 
N. Amer. 1736. 
N. Amer. 1752. 
C p.l 
L p.l 
L p.l 
L s.l 
L s.l 
L s.l 
Bot. mag. 977 
Bot. mag. 1008 
Par. lond. 5 
Bot. cab. 474 
Bot. cab. 418 
Mich. arb. t. 5 
30 jn.jl W N. Amer. 1800. 
40 ap.my W Carolina 1786. 
20 ap.my W Carolina 1811. 
S p.l Bot. mag. 2189 
L p.l Bot. mag. 1206 
G p.l Bot. reg. 407 
7£05 
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History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
modern attempts to cultivate it in Europe, though with the assistance of artificial heat, seldom have 
succeeded. 
Dr. Patrick Browne is of opinion that the ancients confounded two plants under the name of Lotus or 
Egj'ptian bean, and that under these titles they described the upper parts of the Nymphasa Nelumbo, and the 
roots of the iesser Colocasia, now commonly called coccos in Jamaica, Arum Colocasia. {Jam. 243. 332.) 
In our stoves the Nelumbium should be grown in a tub or large pot, in a rich loamy soil, and requires a 
strong heat to flower in perfection. The pot or tub should be kept full of water all the time the plants are 
growing, but may be allowed to get dry when the flowering season is over. The plants may be increased by 
" ividing at the root, but it is obtained more readily from seeds, which vegetate freely. {Bot. Cult. 83.) 
Kent of Clapton says, that the seeds will keep forty years, vegetate freely, and flower the first year. 
{Hort. Trans, iii. 36.), 
1214. Dillenia. So named by Linnzeus, in honor of John James Dillenius, the famous professor of botany at 
Oxford, author of Historia Muscorum, Hortus Elthamensis, &c. The species are beautiful trees, with large 
leathery leaves, and axillary or terminating flowers often also large. They thrive best in a light loamy soil. 
Ripened cuttings, not deprived of their leaves, strike root freely, in a pot of sand plunged under a hand-glass in 
heat. Good seeds sometimes arrive from India, when the sooner they are sown the better j placed in a 
moderate hot-bed frame, they will succeed well. {Bot. Cult. 50.) 
1215. Illicium. From illicio, to attract, on account of its agreeable perfune. I. floridanum has very fragrant 
leaves, and capsules having a strong smell of anise when rubbed. This species, and more especially anisatum 
is powerfully carminative and stomachic. In China it is in frequent use for seasoning dishes, especially such 
as are sweet. In Japan they place bundles and garlands of the aniseed-tree in their temples before their idols, 
and on the tombs of their friends. They also use the powdered bark as incense to their idols. A branch put 
into the decoction of Tetraodon hispidum is supposed to increase the virulence of that poison. The bark, finely 
powdered, is used by the public watchmen to make a chronometer or instrument for measuring the hours, 
by slowly sparkling at certain intervals in a box, in order to direct when the public bells are to sound. 
Ripened cuttings will root in sand, but the plant is most readily increased by layers. 
1216. Liriodendron. From Xti^iov, a lily, and Sah^ov, a tree. The flov/ers, which may be likened to a lily or 
tulip, grow upon one of the loftiest trees of the forest. A smooth tree, not less admired for its fiddle-shaped 
leaves, than its tulip-like flowers, which are produced at the end of the branches ; they are composed of six 
petals, three without and three within, which form a sort of bell-shaped flower, whence the inhabitants of 
North America gave it the title of tulip. These petals are marked with green, yellow, and red spots, making 
a fine appearance when the trees are well charged with flowers. When the flowers drop the germ swells, and 
forms a kind of cone, but it does not ripen in England. 
The timber is used in America for canoes, but is unfit for boards or planks, as it contracts and expands more 
than the wood of any other tree. 
The tulip tree is now very common in Europe ; in the south of France and Italy, it is frequent in public 
avenues, and flowers when twenty or thirty feet high, and of six or seven years growth. In Britain it requires a 
