M.  Virginiana,  var.  e.  Linnieus,  Spec.  1  ed.  536.
M.  DeCandolUi,  Savi,  Bibl.  Ital.  i,  224  &  t.
TuUpastrum  Americanum,  Spach,  Hist.  Veg.  vii,  483.
CUCUMBEE  TEEE.  MOUNTAIN  MAGXOLIA.
Western  ¥ew  York  to  southern  Illinois,  southward  along  the  Alleghany  mountains,  and  scattered  through
eastern  and  middle  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  usually  on  Carboniferous  deposits,  to  southern  Alabama  (Stockton,
Mohr)  and  northeastern  Mississippi;  Arkansas,  Crowley's  ridge,  and  in  the  southern  and  southwestern  part  of  the
state  (Texarkana,  Harvey,  and  in  Polk,  Howard,  Cross,  and  Pike  counties).
A  large  tree,  20  to  30  meters  in  height,  with  a  trunk  O.GO  to  1.20  meter  in  diameter;  rich  woods,  reaching  its
greatest  development  on  the  slopes  of  the  southern  Alleghany  mountains.
Wood  durable,  light,  soft,  not  strong,  close-grained,  compact,  satiny;  medullary  rays  numerous,  thin;  color,
yellow-brown,  the  sap-wood  lighter,  often  nearly  white;  specific  gravity,  0.4690;  ash,  0.29;  used  for  pump-logs,  water-
troughs,  flooring,  cabinet-making,  etc.
4. — Magnolia  cordata,  Michaux,

Fl.  Bor.-Am.  i,  328.— Alton,  Hort.  Kew.  2  ed.  iii,  331.— Poiret,  Suppl.  iii,  547.— Michaux  f.  Hist.  Arb.  Am.  iii,  87,  t.  4;  N.  American
Sylva,  3  ed.  ii,  18,  t.  54.— Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  ii,  382.— Lindley,  Bot.  Eeg.  iv,  t.  325.— Nnttall,  Genera,  ii,  18.— De  Candolle,  Syst.
i,  455 ;  Prodr.  i,  80.— Hayne,  Dend.  Fl.  118.— Elliott,  Sit.  ii,  38.— Loddiges,  Bot.  Cab.  t.  474.— Sprengel,  Syst.  ii,  64-2.— Eafinesque,
Med.  Bot.  ii,  32.— Eaton,  Manual,  6  ed.  218.— Sertum  Botanicum,  v  &  t.— Don,  Miller's  Diet,  i,  83.— Eeichenbach,  Fl^  Exot.  t.
