UMBRELLA TREE; ELKWOOD (Magnolia tripetala, Linn.). 10 to 40 feet. Conical or rolind-topped tree with stout, con torted branches. Bark gray, thin, smooth, with bristle-like warts. Buds 1 to 2 inches long. Wood weak, pale brown, soft, of no use. Leaves 16 to 20 inches long, obovate, acute, entire, tapering narrowly to the stout petiole; bright green, smooth, thin, silky when they open. Flowers white, cup
shaped, 4 to 5 inches deep, of unpleasant odor, soon spread ing wide open, the 3 sepals recurved. Fruit a smooth, rose colored cone, oblong, e to 4 inches long; seeds inch long. Dist.: Pennsylvania to southern Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas; Atlantic States, nearly to coast. Cultivated in Eastern States.