mag no ferrite (magnoferit)

See magnesio ferrite. Magnolia (mag-nōʻli-ä), п. [NL. (Plumier, 1703), named after Pierre Magnol, a French botanist (1638-1715).] 1. A genus of plants, type of the natural order Magnoliaceæ and the tribe Magnoliee, characterized by a se ile cone shaped cluster of pistils, and two-ovuled persistent carpels which open down the back at maturity. They are trees or shrubs with entire alternate leaves, often evergreen, conduplicate in the bud, and then protected by membranous stipules, and large showy flowers which are solitary and terminal. The calyx consists of three deciduous sepals, and the corolla of six to twelve petals, usually white or purplish; and the stamens and pistils are numerous. The flowers are generally fragrant, and the fruit is a spike, consisting of a number of follicles, from the openings of which the scarlet or brown seeds are suspended at maturity by long and slender threads. There are about 15 IMG:content-0077.png:[ocr errors][merged small][subsumed] a, one of the stamens; b, vertical section through one of the pistils, showing two ovules; c, cone of ripe fruits. species, indigenous to subtropical Asia and the eastern part of North America. They are almost all very ornamental, and are frequently cultivated. M. conspicua is the yulan. M. grandiflora is the big laurel or bull-bay of the southern United States, a fine forest-tree, 60 or 80 feet high, evergreen, with fragrant flowers. M. macro phylla is the great-leafed cucumber, a le common tree of the same region. M. Umbrella is the umbrella-tree. M. a cum in at a, the cucumber-tree or mountain-magnolia, extends north to New York and Ohio. Another cucumber tree is M. cordata, growing in the Southern States. M. glau ca, a moderate-sized tree, or northward a shrub, grows in swamps from Ma achusetts to Florida and Texas. It has globular fragrant flowers, 2 inches long, the leaves ever nolia + -accous.] Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Magnoliacea; resembling the magnolia.