. Gordonia lasicmthus,THE WOOLLY-FLOWERED GORDONLl. Hypericum lasianthits, Gordonia lasianthus, Gordonia a feuUles glabres, Alcee de la Floride,Langstielige Gordonie,Loblolly Bay, Si/nonymes. LinnjEus, Species Plan tar um.(LiN^^us, Mantissa De Candolle, { MicHAtJx, North American Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. ToRKEY AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. States. Derivations. The specific name, lasinnthjis, is derived from the Greek lasios, woolly, and anthos. a flower. The Frenchname
. Gordonia lasicmthus,THE WOOLLY-FLOWERED GORDONLl. Hypericum lasianthits, Gordonia lasianthus, Gordonia a feuUles glabres, Alcee de la Floride,Langstielige Gordonie,Loblolly Bay, Si/nonymes. LinnjEus, Species Plan tar um.(LiN^^us, Mantissa De Candolle, { MicHAtJx, North American Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. ToRKEY AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. States. Derivations. The specific name, lasinnthjis, is derived from the Greek lasios, woolly, and anthos. a flower. The Frenchname Aide de la Floride, signifies Florida Althea, or hollyhoclt, and the other name has reference to llie smoothness of theleaves. The German name signifies Long-peduncled Gordonia. Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 58 ; Audubon, Birds of America, pi. clxvii.; Calesby, Natural History ofCarolina, i., pi. 44.; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, figure 93; and the figures below. Specific , Pedicels axillary, usually shorter than the leaves. Leaves oblong, coriaceous,Calyx silky. Capsules conoid, acuminated.—Don, Millers Diet. Description. ^HE Gordonia lasian-thus, in its native%ji ui IV. country, is a beauti- ^^^^^ ful sub-evergreen tree, r growing to a height of fifty or sixty feet, with a J^^ ^ydiameter of eighteen or twenty inches. The trunk ^ \ Y) is often straight, for the first half of its height,and the small divergency of its branches gives ita regularly fastigiate form; but, as they ascend,they spread more loosely, like those of other treesof the forest. The bark is very smooth whilethe tree is less than six inches in diameter; but,on old trunks, it becomes thick, and deeply fur-rowed. The leaves are from three to six inchesin length, alternate, oval-acuminate, slightlytoothed, and smooth and shining on the uppersurface. The flowers are more than an inchbroad, white, and sweet-scented; they begin toappear about the middle of July, and
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