The Germen are numerous, ovate-oblong, covering the clubbed 
receptacle. The Styles are recurved, contorted and very 
ihort. The Stigmas are from one end of the fryle to the 
other, and villofe. 
The Seed-veJJel is an ovate cone, covered with -capfules, which 
are compreifed, roundifh, fcarce imbricated, crowded, acute, 
one cell’d, two valv’d, feffile, gaping outward and perma- 
nent. 
The Seeds are folitary, roundifh, berried, and hanging by a 
thread from the bofom of each fcale of the cone. 
The Species are, 
1. Magnolia acuminata. Long leaved Mountain 
Magnolia , or Cucumber Tree . 
This tree grows fometirnes to the height of thirty 
or forty feet, and to eighteen inches or more in di- 
ameter; dividing into feveral 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-veflels are about three inches long, 
fomewhat refembling a fmall Cucumber; from whence 
the inhabitants where it grows natural, call it the 
Cucumber-tree. 
2. Magnolia glauca. Small Magnolia , or Swamp 
Sajfafras, 
This grows naturally in low, modi, or fwampy 
ground, often to the height of fifteen or twenty 
feet ; covered with a whitifh fmooth bark, and di - 
viding'into feveral branches; furnifhed with entire, 
oblong, oval leaves, of a dark green on their upper 
furface, but whitifh and a little hairy underneath. 
The flowers are produced at the ends of the branch- 
es, compofed of fix concave, white petals, of an 
agreeable fmell; and are fucceeded by oval, or fome- 
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