Tilia. TILIACE^. 343 



acuminate, about equalling the petals : stamens commonly 10 : capsule siliquiform, 2-celled, 

 often 2 inches long, compressed contrary to the partition, pointed by the short subulate 

 style, divergently spreading or ascending, glabrous or minutely strigose-puberulent (not 

 villous) and mostly straight. — Gray in Patterson, Check-list N. A. Plants, 1892, 17, name 

 only. (For species, L. Spec. ed. 2, i. 747; Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 58; Schumann, 1. c. 127, 

 t. 26, with vars.) C. sUiquosus, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 239 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 94, t. 137, not L. 

 C. pilolobus, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 24 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 332 ; i not quite of Link, 

 Enum., &c. — Florida to S. Texas and Arizona. (Mex.) 



C. siLiQuosus, L. Glabrous : leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate ; those of flowering branchlets 

 often small and rounded : linear capsules 2 or 3 inches long, at apex truncate and apiculate 

 with 4 short spreading teeth, two to each valve. — Spec. i. 529 ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 59 ; 

 Griseb. Y\. W. Ind. 97, excl. ref. to Gray, Gen. 111. — S. Florida, near dwellings, Curtiss. 

 (Nat. from W. Ind.) 



C* acutAngulus, Lam.2 Indian and African, naturalized in W. Indies, occurs as a 

 ballast-weed at Pensacola, Curtiss. Its ovate leaves bear at base a pair of salient setiferous 

 teeth; and the capsule is 5-celled and 5-corniculate at apex. — Diet. ii. 104. 



C. TEfDENS, L., an Old World species with narrow leaves and 3-celled 3-corniculate capsules, 

 has occurred as a ballast-weed at Philadelphia. — Mant. ii. 566. 



3. TILIA, Tourn. Linden, Lime-tree, Basswood. (The classical Latin 

 name.) — Forest trees of temperate parts of northern hemisphere ; with soft 

 white wood, very fibrous and tough inner bark abounding in mucilage, few-scaled 

 winter buds, rounded and often cordate veiny and serrate alternate leaves on 

 long petioles, with membranaceous caducous stipules. Peduncles axillary, adnate 

 half way up to an accompanying membranaceous ligulate bract, cymosely several- 

 many-flowered. Flowers cream-color, opening in early summer. — Inst. 611) 

 t. 381 ; L. Gen. no. 440.» 



T. EukopJ:a, L. (the small-leaved form, T.parvifolia, Ehrh., sometimes the larger-leaved 

 T. grandifolia, Ehrh., or intermediate forms), the European Lime, is often planted as a shade 

 tree in towns and may be known by the want of the petaloid scales (staminodia) among the 

 stamens. These are conspicuous in all American species, which, moreover, seem to be as con- 

 fluent as are the Old World forms. — Spec. i. 514. 



T. Americana, L. Leaves ample, glabrous (except in the tufted axils of the veins), of firm 

 texture, both faces green, upper shining : floral bract usually tapering to stalked base : 

 spatulate staminodes exceeding the stamens : fruit ovoid, a third to nearly half inch long, 

 obsoletely costate. — Spec. i. 514 ; Marsh. Arb. 153 ; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 31 1, t. 1 ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 92, t. 136.* T. glabra, Vent. Monogr. Til. 9, t. 2 ; DC. Prodr. i. 513. T. 

 nigra, Borkh. Handb. Forstb. ii. 1219 ; Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, ii. 340, t. 15; Bayer, 

 Monogr. Til. (ex Verb. Bot. Verein. Wien, xii. 1862) 53. T. Canadensis, Michx. Fl. i. 306. 

 17'. pubescens, Nouv. Duham. i. t. 51. — Woods, New Brunswick to Georgia, and west to 

 Winnipeg, Kansas, and E. Texas, &c. 

 T. pubescens, Ait. Small tree: leaves mostly 'thinner and rather small, pubescent be- 

 neath or glabrate in age : floral bract usually rounded at base and even the lowest very 

 short-stalked : fruit globular, quarter inch long. — Kew. ii. 229 ; Vent. 1. c. 10, t. 3 ; Michx. 

 f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. t. 3; Ell. Sk. ii. 3; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 240 {T. Caroliniana, Mill. 

 Diet. ed. 8 ; Marsh. Arb. 154 ; Wang. Anpfl. Nordam. Holz. 56, are all doubtful and prob- 

 ably of preceding species, so this older name cannot be adopted.) T. Laxijiora, Michx. Fl. 

 i. 306 ; Spach, 1. c. 343, t. 15. T. Americana, var. pubescens, Loud. Arb. i. 374, t. 24 ; Gray, 

 Man. ed. 1, 72. — Wading Riv., Long Island, E. S. Milkr, and from North Carolina to 

 Florida and Texas. 



1 Add Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 45. 



2 Species taken by Dr. Gray from imperfect material for C olitorius, L. 

 8 Add Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 305. 



4 Add Gray, PI. For. Trees N. A. t. 10 (fr. globose). 



