Part 11 (1/2)

=CLa.s.s I. ANGIOSPeRMae.=

Plants with a pistil consisting of a closed ovary, which contains the ovules and forms the fruit.

ORDER =I. MAGNOLIACEae.= (MAGNOLIA FAMILY.)

Trees or shrubs, mainly of tropical regions, including, in our section, the three following genera:

GENUS =1. MAGNLIA.=

Trees and tall shrubs with alternate, thick, smooth, entire leaves with deciduous stipules which form the bud-scales, and are attached entirely around the stem, leaving a ridge, as in Liriodendron.

Flowers very large (3 to 10 in. in diameter), usually white, solitary.

Fruit a large cone from which the seeds, drupe-like, usually red, hang out on long threads during the autumn.

* Blooming with or before the opening of the leaves. (=A.=)

=A.= Flowers entirely white 9, 10.

=A.= Flowers dark purple 11.

=A.= Flowers mixed purple and white. A large number of hybrids from China and j.a.pan.

* Blooming after the leaves expand. (=B.=)

=B.= Leaves evergreen, more than 8 in. long 1.

=B.= Leaves evergreen, not 6 in. long 2.

=B.= Leaves deciduous. (=C.=)

=C.= Leaves decidedly auriculate or cordate at the base. (=D.=)

=D.= Leaves very large (1 to 3 ft. long) 5.

=D.= Leaves smaller and much cl.u.s.tered at the tips of the flowering branches 6.

=C.= Leaves not conspicuously cordate at base. (=E.=)

=E.= Leaves cl.u.s.tered at the tips of the flowering branches 7.

=E.= Leaves scattered along the branches. (=F.=)

=F.= Base of leaf abrupt 3, 4.

=F.= Base of leaf tapering. (=G.=)

=G.= Leaves quite large, about 1 ft. long; a very erect growing tree 8.

=G.= Leaves smaller, medium thick, glossy above 2.