TILIACE^. 



Nat. si/st. ed. 2. p. 99- 



TILIA. 



Calyx 5-parted, deciduous. Petals 5, naked, or furnished with 

 a scale in the inside near the base. Stamens numerous; filaments 

 distinct or slightly polyadelphous. Ovary globose, villous, with 

 1 style, and five 2-seeded cells. Nut leathery, by abortion 1-2-cel- 

 led, 1 -2-seeded. 



293. T. europaea Linn, sp.pl 733. E. Bot. t. 610. — A 

 common tree all over the north of Europe. (Lime or Linden 

 Tree.) 



A tall and handsome, hardy tree, with smooth, round, brown, leafy, 

 spreading branches, green while tender. Leaves 3 or 4 inches broad, 

 and rather more in length, undivided; unequal, and somewhat heart- 

 shaped, as well as entire, at the base; the margin acutely and rather 

 unequally serrated; the point elongated, acute, serrated at its base; 

 upper surface quite smooth, of a bright pleasant green ; under paler, or 

 slightly glaucous, likewise smooth, except small depressed tufts of 

 brown woolly hair, where the lateral ribs branch off from the 5 princi- 

 pal ones. Stipules oval, smooth, in pairs at the base of eachfootstalk, 

 soon deciduous. Footstalks cylindrical, slender, smooth, not half so 

 long as the leaves. Flower-stalks axillary, cymose or imperfectly 

 umbellate, smooth, hardly so long as the leaves, drooping, with from 

 6 to 10 flowers; each bearing an oblong, smooth, pale, flat, entire, 

 membranous bract, originating above the base of the flower-stalk, and 

 for about half its length firmly united therewith, its blunt point nearly 

 on a level with the flowers, or longer. Flowers greenish, delightfully 

 fragrant, especially in an evening. Petals obovate, pale lemon-coloured, 

 destitute, like all our European species, of the scales attached to the 

 petals of the American ones. Stamens spreading, shorter than the 

 corolla. Ovary densely hairy ; stigma 5-lobed. Capsule downy, lea- 

 thery, not woody, uncertain in the number of perfect cells and seeds. 

 Smith. — Flowers, separated from the large leafy bracts, are used as an 

 infusion in Austria with much success in vertigo and spasms ; they pro- 

 mote perspiration and alleviate coughs. But if the bracts and fruit are 

 mixed with the flowers, the infusion then becomes astringent and con- 

 fines the bowels. Host. 



TRIUMFETTA. 



Sepals, 5, obtuse, or apiculate beneath the point. Petals 5, 

 or occasionally 0. Stamens 10-30, free or scarcely united except 

 at the very base. Ovary roundish. Style 1. Carpels 4, more 

 147 L 2 



