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%hat conical feed-velfels, of an inch or more in length 
and three fourths of an inch in diameter ; compofed 
of many capfules, which open and difcharge their 
feeds when ripe, hanging by (lender white threads, 
of a red colour, and near the fize of a fmall bean. 
The feeds and bark have been ufed with fome fuc- 
cefs in the cure of Rheumatifm, See. 
3. Magnolia grandiflora. Ever-green Laurel-lea'll” 
ed Tulip -Tree. 
This grows naturally in Florida and South Caroli- 
na, fometimes to the height of eighty feet or more, 
with a ftraight trunk of two feet or more in diame- 
ter; having a regular head. The leaves are ever- 
green, of a thick confidence, pretty large, oblong, 
pointed, and entire: cf a lucid green on the upper 
fide, and fometimes of a ruflet, or buff colour on 
the under. The flowers are produced at the ends 
of the branches; they are very large, and compofed 
of eight or ten oblong white petals, narrowed to- 
wards the bafe, but broad, rounded, and a little 
waved at their extremities* They are fucceeded by 
oblong, conical feed-veflels, difclofing their feeds 
after the manner of the other fpecies. This is allow- 
ed to be one of the moft beautiful ever-green trees 
yet known, but is impatient of cold. 
4. Magnolia tripetala. The Umbrella Tree. 
This grows pretty frequent in Carolina, arid fomq 
parts of Pennfylvania; ufually to the height of fix- 
teen or twenty feet, with a (lender trunk, covered 
with a fmooth bark, and dividing into feveral branch- 
es. The leaves are very large and entire, often from 
twelve to fifteen inches or more in length, and five or 
fix in width, narrowing to a point at each extremity, 
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