Tilia americana, 

 THE AMERICAN LIME-TREE. 



Synonymes. 



Tilia americana, 



( LiNNJEUs, Species Plantarum. 



I WiLLDENow, Berlinische Baumzucht. 



- MicHAux, North American Sylva. 



Loudon, ArboretuiB Britannicum. 

 ^ ToRREY AND Gray, Floi'a of North America. 



De Candolle, Prodromus. 



Don, Miller's Dictionary. 



France. 



Germany. 



Italy. 



Spain. 



Lenni Lenape Indians. 



Canada. 



Kentucky. 



Other parts of the United States. 



Tilia glabra, 



Tilleul de rAmerique, Tilleul du Canada, 

 Amerikanischer Lindenbaum, 

 Tiglio americano, 

 Tilo americano, 

 Lenikby, 



AVhite-wood, Bass-wood, 

 Lin, Linden, 



Lime-tree, Black Lime-tree, Smooth-leav- 

 ed Lime-tree, Bass-wood, 



Derivations. The name Bass-wood, is probably a corruption from bast, which is applied to the European lime-tree by the 

 rustics of Lincolnshire, because ropes were made from its bark. The Indian name is derived from lermi, original, and xrikby ; 

 the last word by itself, meaning the tree, the baric of which peels freely all the year round. It is called Black Lime from the 

 dark colour of the bark. 



Engravings. 

 cum, v., pi. 22 



Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 131; Selby, British Forest Trees, p. 11; Loudon, Arboretum Britanni- 

 and the figures below. 



Specific Characters. Leaves obliquely cordate, or truncate at the base, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, 

 abruptly acuminate ; petals obtuse or truncate, crenate at the apex. Torrey and Gray, Flora. 



Description. 

 t^lHE Tilia americana, 



^ h H -'A like the European 



^ (J ^ linden, is regarded as 



W^^^m one of the finest of 

 forest trees, and when cultivated, proves highly 

 ornamental. In our native woods, it often 

 rises more than eighty feet in height, and fre- 

 quentiy upwards of four feet in diameter ; and 

 there is little doubt but, if cultivated, and judi- 

 ciously treated, it would reach a size little 

 inferior, if not equal, to the European species. 

 Its body is straight, uniform, and surmounted 

 with an ample and tufted summit. In winter, 

 it is readily recognized by the robust appear- 

 ance of the trunk and branches, and by the 

 dark-brown colour of the bark on the shoots. 

 The leaves are from three to four inches wide, 



obliquely heart-shaped at the base, abruptly and acutely pointed at the sum- 

 mit, finely and sharply toothed, glabrous above, of a deep-green, and paler 

 beneath, with foot-stalks about two inches long. The flowers, which appear in 

 June, are about half of an inch in diameter, borne by peduncles from four to six 

 inches long, and are garnished with a long, narrow floral leaf. The cymes are 

 compounded, having from twelve to eighteen flowers, pendulous, and subdivided 



