CLASS XIII, ORDER I.] TILIA. 



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Lindley has referred the T. corallina, of Smith, is a different species, 

 having the capsules smooth, and not downy, and without ribs. 



Very large trees of this species are spoken of in various countries of 

 Europe, and rendered famous from their great size, or by some senti- 

 mental tale or fabulous story. In the Church-yard at Sedlitz, in 

 Boliemia, are some famous old trees of this species, which are reported 

 to have miraculously borne hooded leaves ever since the Monks of a 

 neighbouring Convent were all hanged upon their branches ! ! 



3. T. parvifo'lia, Ehrh. (Fig. 870.) SmalUeaved Lime Tree. 

 Leaves obliquely sub-rotundate, cordate, with an acuminated point, 

 unequally serrated, smooth, glaucous beneath, with tufts of hairs 

 scattered and at the axils of the veins ; fruit sub-globose, nearly 

 smooth, very fragile. 



English Botany, t. 1705.— English Flora, vol. iii. p. 20.-Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 214.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. bb.^T. 

 mycrophylla, Vent— De Cand. Prod 1. p. 513. 



A handsome spreading tree, with round smooth reddish brown 

 branches. Leaves alternate, from two to three inches across, with 

 rather long slender smooth footstalks, roundish, with an acuminated 

 often elongated point, obliquely cordate at the base, smooth, the mar- 

 gin acutely and unequally serrated, often lobed, pale and glaucous 

 beneath, with thick tufts of hairs scattered and at the axis of the lower 

 veins. Stipules ovate, obtuse, smooth, soon falling off. Inflorescence 

 axillary cymes, of numerous flowers, erect? on a long slender smooth 

 stalk, with an oblong lanceolate pale smooth foliaceous hractea. 

 Flowers very fragrant. Calyx with ovate acute pieces, downy. Petals 

 oblong, pale yellow. Stamens with slender filaments. Style straight, 

 simple, erect. Stigma five cleft. Capsule small, sub-globose, scarcely 

 downy, with thin fragile valves, mostly bearing only one seed. 



Habitat.— -Woods, plantations, and hedges, in various parts of 

 England. 

 Tree; flowering in August. 



Lime, or Linden trees, are much esteemed for making groves, and 



oroamenting the carriage roads of parks and pleasure grounds, though 



not perhaps so much now as formerly. T. Europcea is the most 



common in the North of Europe, and T. grandifolia in the Southern 



parts ; it occasionally grows to an enormous size. Near Nenstadt 



in Wirtemberg, one is stated to be at least six hundred years old' 



and Its trunk is thirty-six feet in circumference; and one of great 



size, which grew where the ancestors of Linnreus had long resided 



IS said to have given them its Swedish name of Linn, and hencJ 



Lmn-eus. The wood of the Lime-tree is light, soft, and close grained, 



which qualities, together with the important one of its net being 



liable to the attacks of insects, renders it valuable for carving into 



ornaments, turning, Sec. The splendid specimens of Gibbon's carvings 



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