Magnificent Magnolias

Magnolia glauca

"The use of the fresh bark, cones, nd seeds of this species, together with those of M. grandiflora, acuminate, tripetala, and macrophylla, has decended to the laity and general practitioner from the Aborigines, who employed a warm decoction of the bark and cones extensively agains rheumatism, and a cold infusion as a antiperiodic. […] It is thoroughly believed in the South that a growth of magnolias in stagnant waters renders them pure and prevents the generation of malarial poisons."

This illustration and the description are from volume one of "American medicinal plants: an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies," by Charles Frederick Millspaugh, 1854-1923 (Published by Boericke & Tafel, 1887)