. 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. 388 The Magnolias. Fig. 341. — Bull Bay. veined on the upper side, the under sur- face rusty-haiiy, the base either narrowed or rounded; the thick leaf-stalks are cm. long or less. The broadly bell-shaped flowers open from April to July or Au- gust, and are heavily fragrant; the creamy white sepals and petals are broadly obo- vate, notched, clawed, 7 to 10 cm. long and nearly as wide as long; the styles are stout and
. 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. 388 The Magnolias. Fig. 341. — Bull Bay. veined on the upper side, the under sur- face rusty-haiiy, the base either narrowed or rounded; the thick leaf-stalks are cm. long or less. The broadly bell-shaped flowers open from April to July or Au- gust, and are heavily fragrant; the creamy white sepals and petals are broadly obo- vate, notched, clawed, 7 to 10 cm. long and nearly as wide as long; the styles are stout and persistent, the ovaries densely hairy. The lipe fruit is oval, very hairy, 8 to 12 cm. long, the obovoid seeds to 2 cm. long, somewhat flattened. The wood has a limited use in car- pentry and is good fuel; it is nearly white with a specific gravity of about , and rather hard. The tree is highly valued for decorative planting from Maryland south- ward, and in warm-temperate Europe. 4. SWEET BAY—Magnolia viiginiana Linnaeus, 1753 Magnolia glauca Linnaeus, 1763 The Sweet bay. Swamp bay, or Laurel magnolia, known also as White bay, Swamp laurel. Swamp sassafras, and Beaver tree, while seldom over 8 to 10 meters high at the north, and there often flowering as a shrub, attains in Florida a height of 20 to 25 meters, with a trunk up to a meter in diameter or more. It grows in swamps from eastern Massachusetts to southern Florida, extending westward to Lebanon county, Penn- sylvania, central North Carolina, and westward through the Gulf States to Texas and southern Arkansas. The base of its trunk is sometimes much swollen. The old bark is thin and gray, that of young trees and branches pale gray or nearly white; roimd young twigs are finely hairy, green, ag reddish brown to gray. The leaves, ire deciduous in the autumn at the north, but persistent through the winter at the south, are oblong to elliptic, firm in texture, 5 to 15 cm. long, pointed or blunt at each end, pale a
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