Magnolia glauca magnol-gl.

Sweet Magnolia. Sweet Bay. N. O. Magnoliaceæ. Tincture of the flowers.

Asthma. Fainting.

Our knowledge of Mag. gl . is based on two observations by S. A. Jones and T. F. Allen of the effects of the flowers on three persons. The symptoms were these: "Sense of great oppression about his chest;" "strong tendency to fainting (these occurred in a man). A lady had: "Oppression of chest; could not expand the lungs; with a feeling as if she had swallowed food without chewing, and it distressed her stomach." In a doctor it "increased the pain of inflammatory gout;" and "evidently increased the paroxysm of a pain which came on every afternoon." The Treasury of Botany says: " M. glauca is a low-growing, deciduous tree, called in America Swamp Sassafras, from the nature of the locality in which it grows, and from the resemblance in its properties to Laurus sassafras . It is also called Beaver-tree, because the root is eaten by beavers, which animals also make use of the wood in constructing their nests."