EAR-LEAVED MAGNOLIA; LONG-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE (Magnolia Fraseri, Walt.). 80 to 40 feet. Low, broad crowned tree, with slender, of ten leaning trunk, or many small stems spreading from the ground. Branches angular, stout, with brittle twigs, tipped with purple buds, 11 to 4 inches long. Bark thin, brown, with warty patches. Wood brownish-yel low, weak, soft. Leaves smooth, bright green, obovate, acute, with pointed, ear-shaped lobes at base, entire margin; 10 to 12 inches long, half as wide. Flowers creamy white, spread ing and recurving the three sepals; 8 to 10 inch across, fra grant; petals with narrow, tapering bases. Fruit a narrow
cone, 4 to 5 inches long, carpels rose-colored, with horny tips; seeds s inch long, scarlet, suspended on threads. Dist.: Along mountain streams, Appalachian valleys, Virginia to Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and northern Mississippi. Largest and most abundant near headwaters of Savannah River in South Carolina. Hardy in Northern States. Planted for ornament,