LONG-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE. 
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of the world, so that it is no longer necessary to go in quest of it to its 
native climate. 
PLATE LV. 
A leaf of a fourth part of the natural size. Fig. 1, A petal of the natural 
size. Fig. 2, A cone with seeds of the natural size. 
[It is mostly propagated by seeds. A sheltered glade, in a shrubbery 
or wood, not near enough to other trees to be injured by the roots, is the 
most desirable site. The odor of the flowers is decidedly disagreeable.] 
LONG LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE. 
Magnolia auhtculata. M.foliis subrhomboideo-obovalibus. infer ne angustatis, 
basi profundo sinu quasi auriculatis , membranaceis , utrinque-viridibus. 
This species of Magnolia, equally remarkable with the preceding for the 
beauty of its foliage and for the size of its flowers, which are of an agree- 
able odor, is found only in a small tract far retired in the country, and has 
but lately become known to Botanists. As the result of my own researches, 
it appears to be particularly confined to that tract of the Alleghany moun- 
tains which traverses the Southern States, at the distance of nearly 300 
miles from the sea. It should be remarked that in this part the chain is 
much broader than further north, in Virginia. The Long-leaved Cucum- 
ber Tree is, however, sometimes found on the steep banks of the rivers 
which rise in these lofty mountains, and which on one side roll their waters 
to the sea, and on the other flow to meet the Ohio, after traversing the 
States of Kentucky and Tennessee. The point nearest the sea at which I 
have met with it is Two Sisters’ Ferry , about 35 miles from Savannah in 
Georgia: but it seems to be found here only by accident, for from this 
spot to the mountains, a distance of 150 miles, it is no more seen. I have 
no where found it as abundant as on on the steepest part of the lofty m oun- 
tains of North Carolina, particularly those which are called by the inhabi- 
tants Great Father Mountains, Black and Iron Mountains. It is designated 
