MAGNO'LIA CORDA'TA. 
HEAET-LEAVED MAGNOLIA, 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
magnoliacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
30 feet. 
June, July. 
Tree. 
in 1801. 
No. 987. 
Peter Magnol, whose name is commemorated 
by this genus, was Botanical Professor at Mont- 
pellier, and the author of several works on botany. 
He died in 1715, at the age of seventy-seven years. 
In America, the Magnolia cordata, as well as some 
others of the genus, are called Cucumber Trees, 
from the shape of their fruit; the length of which, 
in the present species, is about three inches. 
This tree, in some parts of South Carolina and 
Georgia, grows to the height of forty feet ; it was 
brought to England by Mr. Lyon, in 1801, and 
according to the Arboretum Britannicum the very 
tree originally introduced was, in 1838, still grow- 
ing in the nursery of the Messrs. Loddiges, and 
not then fifteen feet high. It is further stated, 
that at Claremont, a tree of this species, growing 
in sandy loam on a subsoil of clay, is nearly thirty 
feet high. Its bark is rough and chinky ; its 
leaves from four to six inches long, and three to 
five broad, and deciduous. Its flowers are small 
when compared with grandiflora, but they are pro- 
duced in greater abundance, and possess a faint 
but agreeable fragrance. It deserves to be better 
