849 TILIACEAE 
1. T. semitriloba Jacq. Plants stellate-tomentose, 1-2 m. tall: leaf-blades 
ovate, rhombie, or pens rbicular, serrate, c DN or 3-lobed, 3-8 em. long: 
sepals linear long, or longer: 
petals euneate-spatulate or linear-spatulate: 
eapsule-bo prs Es diameter, der 
nearly truneate at the base; VEMM edid 
than the blades: panics id ongated, 
interrupted: sepals linear or “nearly i 
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The Tn wields’ a fiber similar to jute. l 
2. T. Bartramia L. Plants pubescent, 
fully 2 m. tall or less, usually widely 
branched : leaf-blades r Pn N suborbicu- : 
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p spatulate, nun shorter than the sepals: eapsule-body 
2.0-3.5 m n diameter, RUE prickled-armed.—Cult. grounds, waste-places, 
and roadsides E Fla. Nat. of trop. Am.—(W. I.)—Spr.—fall. 
3. TILIA L.1 Trees with roundish stoutish branchlets without terminal 
buds, the large acute axillary buds covered with numerous imbricate scales. 
Leaves deciduous: blades long-petioled, cordate, truncate, or cuneate at bas se, 
generally more or less a mucronate-crenate: stipules caducous. Flowers 
in axillary or terminal cymes or corymbs, the peduncle more or less adnate to a 
reticulate bract. Sepals 5, distinct, alternate with the five white or yellow 
petals opposite each one of which in our species, stands a spatulate staminodium 
or ipe “like scale. Stam s borne in clusters of five on the receptacle: fila- 
ments united at bas dp o o the staminodia, forked near apex, each 
branch ps aring an extrorse es -sac. Ovary pu 5-celled: stigmas 5. 
Fruit woody, nut-like, sometimes ribbed, 1-celled, 1- o eded, globose or sub- 
globose.—About 65 species, in the Northern Hemisphe E —early Sum.— 
Basswoops. LINDENS.—The wood is soft, light, pale, and straight- ix 
and the inner bark is fibrous. The flowers are fragrant. and yield fine honey, 
and are used medicinally. The European-lime, Tilia europaea L., without 
staminodia in the flowers, is often planted, and yields lime-flower oil used as 
a perfume. e leaves are variable in shape and pubescence, marked differ- 
ences sometimes being found on the same tree. Leaves from suckers and new 
shoots are not so serviceable in identification as those on flowering branches. 
Done pubescent beneath at maturity. 
when present, all stellate and closels appressed. 
"Leatt pu with brown or rusty DOCTI beneath. 
blades obliquely cordate at the 
Bracts mostly gradually narrowed to a peduncle 
above the base. 1. T. neglecta. 
xri mo abruptly narrowed to or nearly 
he base of the peduncle. 2. T. caroliniana, 
Leaf-blades ebiquely truncate at the base. 
acts 1-1.5 ¢ wide, 3. T. porracea. 
Bracts over 1. D e wide. 4. T. georgiana. 
DEAE UIROE i with white, p s or silvery-gray pubes- 
a), nce beneath. . (Sometimes brown in No. 
1 Contributed by Benjamin Franklin Bush. 
