Trees and shrubs; an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum: containing the hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species . t. in diameter, in the form of an umbrella. The tree is called Elkwood in the moun-tains of Virginia, probably from the resemblance which the points of the shoots bear to the hornsof the elk. The French names merely signify umbrella tree, and the German ones the three-petaled beaver tree, or magnolia. Engravings. Michx. Arb., 3.
Trees and shrubs; an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum: containing the hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species . t. in diameter, in the form of an umbrella. The tree is called Elkwood in the moun-tains of Virginia, probably from the resemblance which the points of the shoots bear to the hornsof the elk. The French names merely signify umbrella tree, and the German ones the three-petaled beaver tree, or magnolia. Engravings. Michx. Arb., 3. t. 6. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 418. ; the plate of this species in Arb. edit. vol. V.; and onrjig. 37. Spec. Char., Sfc. Deciduous. Leaves lanceolate, spreading, adult ones smooth,younger ones pubescent underneath. Petals 9—12, exterior ones pendent.(Dons Mi!!., i. p. 83.) A deciduous tree of the middle size. Pennsyl-vania to Georgia, in moist soil. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. in America ; 15 30 ft. in England. Introduced in 1752. Flowers white, 7 in. to 8 diameter, with an unpleasant odour ; May to July. Strobiles rose-coloured, 4 in. to 5in. long ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves dark brownor black. Naked young wood of a fine mahogany MagTioItn trip^tala. This tree, both in America and Europe, is remarkable for the largenessof its leaves and its flowers. The wood is spongy, brittle, with a large pith,soft, porous, and of very little use. The bark upon the trunk is grey,smooth, and polished ; and, if cut while green, it exhales a disagieeableodour. In Britain the tree sends up various shoots from the root, to replacethe stems, which are seldom of long duration ; so that a plant that has stoodthirty or forty years in one spot has had its stems several times renewed duringthat period. The leaves are 18 or 20 inches long, and 7 or 8 inches flowers are 7or 8 inches in diameter, with large white flaccid petals; they areborne on the extremities of
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