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77. TILIACEJE. LINDEN FAMILY. 



Trees or rarely herbs ; leaves simple, alternate ; stipules 

 deciduous ; flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles, 

 ])erfect; sepals usually 5, deciduous; petals 5 or less; sta- 

 mens many, distinct or united in several groups ; style 1, 

 stigma 4-10-lobed ; capsule 2-5-celled, 1-many-seeded. 



TILIA. 



Trees with rough, gray bark on the trunk, bark of the 

 twigs smootli, lead-colored; wood white and soft; leaves 

 cordate, usually inequilateral ; cymes axillary or terminal, 

 peduncle adnate to a large, prominently veined bract ; flowers 

 yellowish-white; sepals 5; petals 5; stamens many, in 5 

 groups ; ovary 5-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, stigma 

 r)-lobed; ca])sule 1 -celled, 1-2-seeded ; peduncle and bract 

 deciduous with the matured fruit, tlie bract forming a wing 

 by which the fruit is often carried to a considerable distance. 



T. PUBESCENS Ait. Basswood. a tree of luodium size; leaves 

 ovate, acuminate at the apex, obtuse and oblique at the base, 

 mucronate-sen-ate, woolly on botli sides or smooth above when old; 

 flowers fragrant, floral bract '2-) in. long; fruit about ^ in. in 

 diameter. May-June. In rieh woods. Bees gather large quanti- 

 ties of nectar from the flowers. 



7s. malvace;e. >lvll()Ws f a:\iily. 



Shrubs or herbs with mucilaginous juice ; leaves simple, 

 alternate, stipulate, palmately veined, usually with stellate 

 j)ubescen(;e ; flowers mostly axillary, on jointed peduncles, 

 ]K*rfect, regular, often with a calyx-like involucre; se})als 5, 

 united at the base; })etals ;">, strongly convolute in tlu* bud; 

 stamens many, inserted in the base of tlie petals and unite<l 

 into a tube surrounding the ]»istil ; styles distinct f>r united, 

 ovary several-celled ; fruit a several-celled deliiscent pod, or 

 a number of separate 1-seeded (tarjjels, united around a cen- 

 tral axis. 



