TILIACE^ 



673 



fr^S^ 



wide; peduncle slender, puberulous, the free portion f'-l' long; pedicels puberulous, 

 about ^' long; sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, hoary-tomentulose on the outer 

 surface, much shorter than the lanceolate petals; staminodia emarginate. Fruit not 

 seen. 



A tree, 25-30 high. 



Distribution. Rich woods; Lake Charm, Orange County (T. L. Mead, 1887), 

 and in Jackson County, Florida; still little known. 



4. Tilia Michauxii, Nutt, Linden. Bass Wood. 



Leaves broadly ovate, abruptly narrowed into short acute entire points, obliquely 

 cordate by a broad sinus or rarely truncate at the base, sharply serrate, with long 

 straight or incurved glandular teeth, thick, dark green and lustrous and glabrous or 

 sparingly stellate-pubescent above, pale and more or less stellate-pubescent below, 

 with small conspicuous axillary tufts of pale hairs, usually 5'-6' long and 3^'-4' wide, 

 with slender orange-brown or yellow midribs and primary veins, turning yellow 

 in the autumn before falling; their petioles stout, at first puberulous, becoming 

 glabrous, l^'-2' long. PloTvers: pedunculate bract decurrent nearly to the base 



or to within ^'-f' of the base of the peduncle, narrowly obovate, tomentulose on the 

 upper, glabrous on the lower surface, 5'-6' long; peduncle slender, glabrous, the free 



