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LIRIODENDRUM. 
The TULIP-TREE. 
Clafs 13. Order 7. Polyandria Polygynia. 
Hr HE Calyx confifls of a proper Involucrum of two leaves; 
A which are triangular, plane and deciduous. 
And an Empalement of three leaves; oblong, concave, 
fpreading, petal-form, and deciduous. 
The Corolla has fix ("often more) petals, bell’d: the petals are 
fpatuled, oblong, obtufe and variegated. 
The Filaments are numerous, fhorter than the corolla, linear, 
and inferted in the receptacle. The Antherce are linear, and 
adjoined longitudinally to the fides of the filaments. 
The Germen are numerous, placed in a cone. The Style none. 
The Stigmas globofe. 
The Seed-veJJel none. The feeds are imbricated in a cone like 
body. 
The Seeds are numerous, ending in a lanced fcale; near the 
bafe of the fcale, fending off from the interior fide, an acute 
angle, comprefled at the bafe and acute, by which they are 
joined to the fpindle-fhaped receptacle. 
The Species with us, are , 
Liriodendrum Tulipifera. Virginian Tulip- 
Tree. 
This often grows to the fize of a large tree, of 
feventv or eighty feet in height and above four feet 
in diameter. The bark of young trees is fmooth, 
but as they grow old it becomes furrowed, their 
lower branches alfo falling off. The young trees 
fend off many branches, almoft from the ground 
upward, garnifhed with broad fmooth leaves, heart- 
Ihaped at the bafe, but end-bitten, or cut, at the ex- 
tremity, having two or three pointed lobes, on each 
fide the midrib ; of a dark green colour on the upper 
