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woolly tufts, smooth above. The young leaves have stellate hairs. 
The stipules are large, crimson or ruby. 
On the under surface, where the nerves are spreading, are triangular 
areas, enclosed by the walls of the nerves and a fringe of long hairs. 
Lindstrom regards these as domatia or abodes of mites, which lay 
their eggs in the fruit in special cavities. The mites remain in the 
domatia by day, coming out at night, and are thought to live on the 
spores of fungi which may be found on the leaves. Where the mites 
Photo. B. Hanley 
Lime (Zilia vulgaris, L.) FROM BELOW 
are abundant at any rate the leaves are healthy. These domatia are 
found also in the Oak, Elm, Alder, Holly. The mites do not leave the 
domatia in the day, but at night travel over the leaves. 
The flowers are sweet-scented, pale whitish-green, in a naked 
cyme, which has a lance-shaped leaflike bract at the base of the droop- 
ing flower-stalk, which bears many flowers. There are 5 deciduous 
sepals, 5. petals. The stamens are numerous, free or united. The 
ovary is round, 5-celled, the cells 2-seeded. The fruit is 1-celled, 
leathery, woody, not ribbed, downy. 
The tree is often 50 ft. high. It flowers in June, July, and August. 
It is a deciduous tree. 
The flowers of this Lime are exceptionally sweet, and smell like 
