. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. MAGNOLIA FAMILY. Si I. MAGNOLIA L. Sp. PI. 535. 1753. Trees or shrubs. Leaves large and generally thick, entire. Buds covered with condu- plicate sheathing stipules. Flowers large, fragrant. Sepals 3, petaloid. Petals 6-12, imbri- cated in 2-4 series. Anthers linear, introrse. Carpels spiked or capitate on the elevated or elongated receptacle, 2-ovuled
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. MAGNOLIA FAMILY. Si I. MAGNOLIA L. Sp. PI. 535. 1753. Trees or shrubs. Leaves large and generally thick, entire. Buds covered with condu- plicate sheathing stipules. Flowers large, fragrant. Sepals 3, petaloid. 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.] A genus of about 25 species, natives of eastern North America, the West Indies, Mexico, east- ern Asia and the Himalayas. Type species : Magnolia virginiana L. 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. 1. M. Flaseri. 2. M. macrophylla. 3. M. tripetala, 4. M. z'irginiana. 5. M. acuminata. I. Magnolia Fraseri Walt. Fraser's Magnolia. Long- or Ear-leaved Umbrella-tree. Fig. 1845. Magnolia Fraseri Walt. Fl. Car. 159. 1788. Magnolia auriculata Lam. Encycl. 3: 673. 1789. A tree 2S°-5o° high, the trunk $'-2° in diameter, straight, the branches widely spreading. Leaf-buds glabrous; leaves clustered at the ends of the branches, auriculate, 6'-2o' long, 3'-8' broad, elongated-obovate or oblong, con- tracted below, glabrous, the lower surface light green, the upper surface darker; petioles slender, i'-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
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