TiMA. TlLIACEiE. 230 



very seldom herbs. Leaves alternate, with deciduous stipules. Flow- 

 ers axillary. 



1. CORCHORUS. Linn.; Lam. ill. l. 478. 



Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, rather shorter than the sepals, inserted under the 

 ovary. Stamens indefinite, or rarely the number of the petals. Style very 

 short, deciduous : stigmas 2-5. Capsule pod-like or roundish, 2-5-celled, lo- 

 culicidal, with no central axis. Seeds usually numerous in each cell. — 

 Shrubs or nearly herbaceous plants. Leaves undivided, serrate. Peduncles 

 axillary or opposite the leaves, very short, 1-few-flowered. Flowers yellow. 



1. C. siliquosus (Linn.) : branching ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute, 

 equally serrate ; capsules pod-shaped, linear, 2-valved, nearly glabrous. — 

 Plum. ic. t. 103. / 1 ; JVilld. sp. 2. p. 1218 ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 504. 



New Orleans, /?/•. /;?o-a//s .' Drummond! Alabama, 7>r. G^aie*/ Also 

 a native of the West Indies, &c. — Nearly herbaceous, glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent. Sepals and petals commonly 4. Stamens 14. The vernal flow- 

 ers, according to Linnaeus, have 4 sepals and 4 stamens j the autumnal 5 

 sepals and numerous stamens. 



2. TILIA. Linn.; Vent. mon. Til.; DC. prodr. 1. p. 512. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens numerous, more or less pentadelphous ; the 

 central one in each parcel (in the North American species) transformed into 

 a petaloid scale (nectary, Linn, staminodium, Spach.) Ovary globose, vil- 

 lous, 5-ceEed; the cells with 2 ovules. Fruit coriaceous or woody, subglobose, 

 by abortion 1-celledj 1-2-seeded. — Trees, with cordate leaves and a tough 

 fibrous bark. Flowers cymose, with the peduncle adnate to a large foliace- 

 ous bract. — Linden or Lime-tree. Basswood. 



1. T. Americana (Linn.) : leaves obliquely cordate, or truncate at the 

 base, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, abruptly acuminate ; petals obtuse or 

 truncate, crenate at the apex. — JVilld. sp. 2. p. 1261 ; Michx. f. sylv. 2. p. 

 233. t. 131 ; Bigel. Ji. Host. p. 214. T. glabra, " Vent. I. c. t. 1. f. 1; » 

 Pursh, fl. 2. p. 62; Ell. sk. 2. p. 2; DC. prodr. 1. p. 513; Hook. fl. 

 Bor.-Ain. 1. p. 108 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. 1. p. 312. T. Canadensis, MicKx. 

 fl. 2. p. 306. 



Woods, Canada ! (lat. 52^) to Virginia, and along the Alleghany Moun- 

 tains to Georgia. June. — A large and beautiful tree, often 60-70 feet high 

 and 2-4 feet in diameter; the wood soft and white. Leaves 3-4 inches wide, 

 coarsely and mucronately serrate : petioles 2 inches long. Peduncle 4-6 

 inches long, adnate the lower half of its length to a linear-oblong yellowish- 

 green strongly-veined bract. Cymes compound, 12-18-flowered, pendulous. 

 Flowers about half an inch in diameter. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, pube- 

 scent outside, woolly within. Petals longer than the sepals, yellowish-white. 

 Staminodia obovate-lanceolate, exactly resembling the petals, but smaller. 

 Style sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than the petals, hairy toward the 

 base. Fruit the size of a large pea, nearly globose, covered with a short 

 gray pubescence, usually perfecting but one seed. 



2. T. heterophijlla (Vent.) : leaves glabrous and deep green above, very 

 white and velvety-tomentose beneath, the veins dark-colored and nearly gla- 

 brous, with coarse mucronate serratures ; petals obtuse, crenulate ; stamino- 



