. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 704 Franklinia I. FRANKLINIA GENUS FRANKUNIA MARSHALL Species Franklinia altamaha Marshall Gordonia altamaha Sargent. Gordonia pubescens L'Heritier DECIDUOUS small tree or shrub of very local occurrence, discovered by the Bartrams in 1765 near Ft. Barrington, along the Altamaha River in Georgia, and later cultivated in their celebrated garden at Philadelphia, and seen again at the original locality by Moses Mar- shall, 25
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 704 Franklinia I. FRANKLINIA GENUS FRANKUNIA MARSHALL Species Franklinia altamaha Marshall Gordonia altamaha Sargent. Gordonia pubescens L'Heritier DECIDUOUS small tree or shrub of very local occurrence, discovered by the Bartrams in 1765 near Ft. Barrington, along the Altamaha River in Georgia, and later cultivated in their celebrated garden at Philadelphia, and seen again at the original locality by Moses Mar- shall, 25 years later. It is not known to have been found wild since, and at the present time is only known from cultivated specimens in gardens and parks. Its majomum known height is 7 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. It is some- times called the Franklin tree. The branches are stout, slightly angular. The bark of young stems and branches is thin, smooth, gray, or reddish brown to dark brown. The twigs are rather slender, round and hairy. The leaves are membranous, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, 6 to 15 cm. long, blunt or sharp-pointed, narrowed at the base, sharply saw- toothed above the middle, or nearly to the base, deep green and shining, with impressed and slightly hairy midrib above, pale and thickly hairy, with prominent midrib beneath; they turn scarlet before falling; the leaf- stalk is hairy, grooved, and short. The fragrant flowers appear in July ^^ continue until stopped by frost; they are solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, on stalks less than i cm. long; the 5 sepals are very unequal, concave, orbicular, 12 to 14 mm. long, hairy-mar- gined, and white hairy; the corolla is 7 to 9 cm. across; the 5 petals are nearly distinct, white, membranous, concave, obovate, 4 to 5 cm. long, somewhat crisped and rounded, silky; stamens numerous, their filaments elongated, distinct; anthers yellow, versatile; ovary 5-celled, ridged, hairy, the slender s
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