. 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. Bull Bay 387 for pumps, is yellowish brown, soft and rather weak, with a specific gravity of about On account of their slender deciduous styles, this species and the next are sometimes classed as a genus distinct from Magnolia, under the name Tulipastrum Spach. 2. HEART-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE-Magnolia cordata Michaux This tree, often regarded as a form or variety of the preceding species, is of very limited natural di
. 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. Bull Bay 387 for pumps, is yellowish brown, soft and rather weak, with a specific gravity of about On account of their slender deciduous styles, this species and the next are sometimes classed as a genus distinct from Magnolia, under the name Tulipastrum Spach. 2. HEART-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE-Magnolia cordata Michaux This tree, often regarded as a form or variety of the preceding species, is of very limited natural distribution, growing wild only in mountain woods from North Carolina to Georgia. It sometimes becomes 24 meters high, with a trunk about i meter in thickness. Its bark is rough and furrowed, the buds, shoots, and young leaves silky-hairy, the twigs becoming, smooth and gray. The leaves vary from broadly ovate to rhombic-obovate; they are dark green on the upper side, 2 dm. long or less, short-pointed, sparingly hairy on both sides, or smooth when old, the base heart-shaped, truncate or somewhat pointed. The bell-shaped flowers, which open in April, are canary-yellow, the sepals about 2 cm. long, spreading, the oblong or obovate petals 5 to 7 cm. long, blunt or bluntish. The fruit is about cm. long and 2 to cm. thick. The wood closely resembles that of the Cucumber tree, but is lighter in weight; its specific gravity being about , and owing to its rarity is not of economic importance. The tree is often cultivated and is of great beauty and Fig. 340. -Heart-leaved Cucumber Tree. , 3. BULL BAY—Magnolia grandiflora Linnasus Magnolia virginiana fcetida Linnaeus. Magnolia fostida Sargent The Bull bay, or Great laurel magnolia, is the largest leaved evergreen tree of our flora, and grows naturally in moist soil, especially along ponds and swamps, from eastern North Carolina to central Florida, westward through the Gulf States to Texas and Arkansas. It attains a
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