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EAR-LEAVED MAGNOLIA. 
over its acclivities, in a rich loamy soil. In Tennessee, 
near the Cumberland river, I afterwards saw a few 
small trees of this species; but in the winter of 1830, in 
an extensive tour which I made through the interior of 
the Southern States, I met with abundance of the Mag- 
nolia macrophylla , 70 miles from Tuscaloosa, on the 
banks of the Coosa in Bibb county, Alabama, growing 
often in the same bottom lands as the Illicium floridanum. 
To give me some idea of the magnitude of the Mag- 
nolias growing in this vicinity, a farmer told me some 
trunks produced 16 rails to the cut , and that the trees 
were two feet in diameter; but as timber it w r as little 
esteemed, not enduring long in the air. To the town of 
Cahaba, I still saw the Magnolia, and afterwards, in the 
immediate vicinity of Tuscaloosa, on the road down 
the banks of the Black Warrior, towards Florida, I ob- 
served this species in the greatest abundance, often as 
much as 60 feet in height; but being the depth of winter, 
I, of course, could form no adequate conception of the 
splendour of its appearance when in vigorous vegeta- 
tion. 
Ear-Leaved Magnolia, ( magnolia auriculata, Lam. 
Long-leaved Cucumber Tree, Mich. Sylva, pi. 56.) In 
Bartram’s Garden, at Kingsessing, in this vicinity, 
there is a tree of this species, 70 or more feet high, 
and with a trunk of the diameter of two to three feet. 
Umbrella Tree, ( Magnolia tripetala.) According to 
Professor Torrey, no person since Michaux has found 
this tree in any part of the State of New York. 
Tulip Tree, (Lyriodendron tulipifera, Linn.) Re- 
specting the northern limits of this tree, G. B. Emerson, 
Esq., informs me, “I have found a single tree of Lyrio- 
dendron in Norfolk county, Massachusetts. It is plenti- 
ful on Westfield river.” 
