LARGE-LEAVED UMBRELLA TREE. 
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able productions which seem to have been confined by the hand of nature 
to a single- district, are thus propagated from one extremity of the globe to 
the other, and serve, by the innocent pleasure attending their cultivation, 
to solace the afflictions of humanity. 
PLATE LVI. 
A leaf of a fourth part of the natural size. Fig. 1, A flower of two-thirds 
of the natural size. Fig. 2, A cone with seeds of the natural size. 
LARGE-LEAVED UMBRELLA TREE. 
Magnolia macrophylla. M. ramis medullosis , fragilibus ; foliis omnium 
atnplissimis , oblongè subcuneato-obovalibus , basi sinuatâ , subauriculatis 
subtils glaucis ; junioribus argenteis, densissimè holosericeis. 
Of the twelve species of Magnolia hitherto discovered on the Old and 
New Continents, the Large-leaved Umbrella Tree is the most remarkable 
for the size of its leaves and of the flowers. It is also the least multiplied 
of the American species, and is rarely met with in the forests. On account 
of the resemblance of its leaves to those of the Umbrella Tree, the two 
species have hitherto been confounded by the inhabitants of the districts 
in which they grow : I have, therefore, given it the specific name of Large- 
leaved Umbrella Tree, which is sufficiently characteristic. My father, in 
his Flora Boreali- Americana, as well as many succeeding botanists, desig- 
nates it by the name of Magnolia macrophylla , Large-leaved Umbrella 
Tree, while in the catalogues of gardeners, and sometimes in those of bot- 
anists, it is denominated Magnolia Michauxii. I have thought proper to 
drop this specific name, however honorable to my father, and to retain the 
one which he himself had established. 
In the month of June, 1789, in the first journey made by my father from 
Charleston to the Mountains of North Carolina, I accompanied him, and 
discovered this tree, which he immediately judged to be a new species of 
Magnolia. The spot on which we found this magnificent vegetable is in 
