M AGNOLIA.t 
Natural Order , Magnoliace^:, (Jussieu.) Linnxan Classi- 
fication , PoLYANDRIA, PoLYGYNIA. 
Calyx of 3 deciduous petaloid sepals. Corolla of from 6 to 12 
petals. Stamens numerous as well as the pistils. Carpels 
disposed in an imbricated cone, 1 to 2-seeded, opening by the 
dorsal suture. Seeds pulpy, red, suspended, when ripe hang- 
ing out of the carpel by a long umbilical thread composed of 
spiral vessels. 
Trees and shrubs with large entire alternate deciduous leaves, 
and solitary terminal large and usually odoriferous flowers. 
Chiefly natives of North America, China, and Japan. 
LARGE FLOWERED MAGNOLIA. 
MAGNOLIA grandiflora, Linn . (Mich. Sylva, plate 51.) 
In the neigbourhood of Savannah in Georgia, and 
near New Orleans, this splendid tree often presents an 
almost equal, smooth, columnar shaft of 60 to 80 feet 
elevation, and attains the height of 100 feet or upwards, 
with a graceful high and spreading summit. On the 
trunk of this species, near Savannah, I observed large 
quantities of the parasitic air plant, Epidendrum conop - 
seum , and it appeared there to grow on no other tree. 
According to Wm. Bartram, who saw the species so 
| Named by Linnseus in honour of Pierre Magnol , a botanist 
of Montpelier. 
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