Part 22 (1/2)

[*] _Leaves all scattered along the branches; leaf-buds silky._

1. M. glauca, L. (SMALL or LAUREL MAGNOLIA. SWEET BAY.) _Leaves_ oval to broadly lanceolate, 3--6' long, _obtuse, glaucous beneath; flower globular, white_, 2' long, _very fragrant_; petals broad; cone of fruit small, oblong.--Swamps, from near Cape Ann and N. Y. southward, near the coast; in Penn. as far west as c.u.mberland Co. June--Aug.--Shrub 4--20 high, with thickish leaves, which farther south are evergreen.

2. M. ac.u.minata, L. (CUc.u.mBER-TREE.) _Leaves thin, oblong, pointed, green_ and a little p.u.b.escent beneath, 5--10' long; _flower oblong bell-shaped, glaucous-green_ tinged with yellow, 2' long; cone of fruit 2--3' long, cylindrical.--Rich woods, western N. Y. to Ill., and southward. May, June.--Tree 60--90 high. Fruit when young slightly resembling a small cuc.u.mber, whence the common name.

3. M. macrophlla, Michx. (GREAT-LEAVED MAGNOLIA.) _Leaves obovate-oblong, cordate_ at the narrowed base, p.u.b.escent and _white beneath; flower open bell-shaped, white, with a purple spot at base_; petals ovate, 6' long; cone of fruit ovoid.--S. E. Ky. and southward.

May, June.--Tree 20--40 high. Leaves 1--3 long, somewhat cl.u.s.tered on the flowering branches.

[*][*] _Leaves crowded on the summit of the flowering branches in an umbrella-like circle; leaf-buds glabrous; flowers white, slightly scented._

4. M. Umbrella, Lam. (UMBRELLA-TREE.) _Leaves obovate-lanceolate, pointed at both ends_, soon glabrous, 1--2 long; petals obovate-oblong, 4--5' long.--S. Penn. to Ky. and southward. May.--A small tree. Fruit rose-color, 4--5' long, ovoid-oblong.

5. M. Fraseri, Walt. (EAR-LEAVED UMBRELLA-TREE.) _Leaves oblong-obovate or spatulate, auriculate at the base_, glabrous, 8--20' long; petals obovate-spatulate, with narrow claws, 4' long.--Va. and Ky., along the Alleghanies, and southward. April, May.--A slender tree 30--50 high.

Flower more graceful and cone of fruit smaller than in the preceding.

2. LIRIODeNDRON, L. TULIP-TREE.

Sepals 3, reflexed. Petals 6, in two rows, making a bell-shaped corolla.

Anthers linear, opening outward. Pistils flat and scale-form, long and narrow, imbricating and cohering together in an elongated cone, dry, separating from each other and from the long and slender axis in fruit, and falling away whole, like a samara or key, indehiscent, 1--2-seeded in the small cavity at the base. Buds flat, sheathed by the successive pairs of flat and broad stipules joined at their edges, the folded leaves bent down on the petiole so that the apex points to the base of the bud. (Name from ??????, _lily_ or _tulip_, and d??d???, _tree_.)

1. L. Tulipifera, L.--Rich soil, S. New Eng. to Mich., Wisc., and southward. May, June.--A most beautiful tree, sometimes 140 high and 8--9 in diameter in the Western States, where it is wrongly called WHITE POPLAR. Leaves very smooth, with 2 lateral lobes near the base, and 2 at the apex, which appears as if cut off abruptly by a broad shallow notch. Petals 2' long, greenish-yellow marked with orange. Cone of fruit 3' long.

ORDER 3. ANONaCEae. (CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY.)

_Trees or shrubs, with naked buds and no stipules, a calyx of 3 sepals, and a corolla of 6 petals in two rows, valvate in the bud, hypogynous, polyandrous._--Petals thickish. Anthers adnate, opening outward; filaments very short. Pistils several or many, separate or cohering in a ma.s.s, fleshy or pulpy in fruit. Seeds anatropous, large, with a crustaceous seed-coat, and a minute embryo at the base of the _ruminated_ alb.u.men.--Leaves alternate, entire, feather-veined. Flowers axillary, solitary.--A tropical family, excepting the following genus:--

1. ASiMINA, Adans. NORTH AMERICAN PAPAW.

Petals 6, increasing after the bud opens; the outer set larger than the inner. Stamens numerous in a globular ma.s.s. Pistils few, ripening 1--4 large and oblong pulpy several-seeded fruits. Seeds horizontal, flat, enclosed in a fleshy aril.--Shrubs or small trees with unpleasant odor when bruised, the lurid flowers solitary from the axils of last year's leaves. (Name from _Asiminier_, of the French colonists, from the Indian name _a.s.simin_.)

1. A. triloba, Dunal. (COMMON PAPAW.) Leaves thin, obovate-lanceolate, pointed; petals dull-purple, veiny, round-ovate, the outer ones 3--4 times as long as the calyx.--Banks of streams in rich soil, western N. Y. and Penn. to Ill., S. E. Neb., and southward. April, May.--Tree 10--20 high; the young shoots and expanding leaves clothed with a rusty down, soon glabrous. Flowers appearing with the leaves, 1' wide.

Fruits 3--4' long, yellowish, sweet and edible in autumn.

ORDER 4. MENISPERMaCEae. (MOONSEED FAMILY.)

_Woody climbers, with palmate or peltate alternate leaves, no stipules, the sepals and petals similar, in three or more rows, imbricated in the bud; hypogynous, dicious, 3--6-gynous; fruit a 1-seeded drupe, with a large or long curved embryo in scanty alb.u.men._--Flowers small. Stamens several. Ovaries nearly straight, with the stigma at the apex, but often incurved in fruiting, so that the seed and embryo are bent into a crescent or ring.--Chiefly a tropical family.

[*] Sepals and petals present. Anthers 4-celled. Seed incurved.

1. Cocculus. Stamens, petals, and sepals each 6.

2. Menispermum. Stamens 12--24, slender. Petals 6--8.

[*][*] Petals none. Anthers 2-celled. Seed saucer-shaped.