An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus i. MAGNOLIA Si I. MAGNOLIA L. Sp. ri. 535. 1753. Trees or shrubs. Leaves large and generally thick, entire. Buds covered with condu- plicate sheathing stipules. Flowers large, fragrant. Sepals 3, pctaloid. Petals 6-12, imbri-, cated in 2-4 series. Anthers linear, introrse. Carpels spiked or capitate on the elevated or elongated
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus i. MAGNOLIA Si I. MAGNOLIA L. Sp. ri. 535. 1753. Trees or shrubs. Leaves large and generally thick, entire. Buds covered with condu- plicate sheathing stipules. Flowers large, fragrant. Sepals 3, pctaloid. Petals 6-12, imbri-, cated in 2-4 series. Anthers linear, introrse. Carpels spiked or capitate on the elevated or elongated receptacle, 2-ovuled, forming follicles at maturity. Seeds fleshy, anatropous, sus- pended from the ripe cones by slender filamentous threads. [In honor of Pierre Magnol, 1638-1715, Professor of Botany in Montpellier.] Leaves auriculate, glabrous. Leaves cordate, white-pubescent beneath. Leaves acute at base. Leaves 8'-2o' long, light green and somewhat pubescent beneath. Leaves 3'-6' long, glaucous beneath. Leaves rounded or truncate at the base, thin. M. Fraseri. M. macrophylla. I. Magnolia Fraseri Walt. Fraser's Magnolia. Long- or Ear-leaved Umbrella-tree. Fig. 1845. Magnolia Fraseri Walt. FI. Car. 159. 1788. Magnolia auriculata Lam. Encycl. 3 : 673. 17S9. A tree 25°-50° high, the trunk 5-2° in diameter, straight, the branches widely spreading. Leaf-buds glabrous; leaves clustered at the ends of the branches, auriculate, 6-20' long, 3'-8' broad, elongated-obovate or oblong, con- tracted below, glabrous, the lower surface light green, the upper surface darker; petioles slender, l'-3' long; flowers white, 3'-8' broad; petals spatulate or obovate, obtuse, much longer than the sepals; cone of fruit 3'-4' long, rose- colored when mature. In mountain woods, Virginia and Kentucky to Florida and Mississippi. Heart-wood soft, brown ; sap-wood white. Weight per cubic foot 31 lbs. North Carolina-bay. Cucumber-tree. Indian-physic. Water-lily tree. May-June.
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