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A tree which is said by Michaux. to grow sometimes to the height of 
40 or 50 feet, though generally about 24 — 40, Leaves 4 — 6 inches long, 
3 — 5 w ide, sometimes nearly round, and in general very slightly cordate 
at base. Leaves of the calyx small. Petals oblong-lanceolate, yellow- 
ish, faintly streaked with red. Cones cylindric, about 3 inches long. 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia, more common 
around Augusta, than in any other part of the country with which I am 
acquainted. 
Flowers April — May. 
6. Auriculata. 
Leaves obovate- 
lanceolate ? acute ? green 
on each surface*, cor- 
date and auriculate at 
base; petals lanceo- 
late. 
Sp, PI. 2. p. 1158. Mich. 1. p. 328. Pursh. 2. p. 382. Mich, 
mrb. 3. p. 94. 
M. Fraseri Walt. 159. 
M. pyramidata? Bartram. 
A tree 30 — 40 feet high, with a stem about 1 in diameter. Leaves 
large, 8 — 12 inches long, 4 — 6 wide, very acute, glabrous, in none of my 
specimens glaucous underneath, tapering to the base and cordate with 
rounded lobes. Petals lanceolate, 2 — 3 inches long, white, fragrant. 
i * 
Grows among the mountains of Carolina and Georgia, but said by 
Michaux, to have been seen at the Sisters-ferry, 35 miles above Savannah 
on Savannah-river. 
Flowers April— May. 
I have inserted the M. Pyramidata of Bartram, which has eluded the 
researches of recent botanists, as a variety of the M. auriculata, yet it 
must be remarked, that the specimens I possess of the M. pyramidata, are 
distinguished by leaves much shorter and proportionally wider, and the 
sinus at the base is more abrupt and angular. Its habitat too may excite' 
some suspicion of a difference in the species. This plant was dis- 
covered by Bartram along the sea coast of "East Florida. Mr. Kin 
of Philadelphia assures me he found it on the south bank of the Altamaha 
nearly opposite to Darien, while Michaux the younger remarks that the 
M. auriculata is so exclusively confined to the mountains, that excepting 
the plant he discovered at the Sisters I * * * 5 F erry, he had never met with it be- 
tween the mountains and the ocean. May not this low country plant of 
Michaux really belong to the pyramidata of Bartram ? 
M. folns obovato- 
lanceolatis, acutis, u- 
trinque viridibus, basi 
cordatis, auriculatis ; 
petalis lanceolatis. 
