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polygonal base, from which the strongly-marked ribs take their 

 rise. Ribs 3 to 5, very often 4. Leaves bright green, a little paler 

 beneath, flaccid. 



It is extremely doubtful whether T. corallina (Sm.) be 

 identical with the present species or not. Dr. Lindley refers it 

 to T. rul)ra (D. C), which has the fruit without elevated lines, 

 and therefore no doubt belongs to T. intermedia. Smith himself 

 was unable to meet with either the flowers or fruit of T. coral- 

 lina ; but there can be little doubt that, whatever it was, it had 

 been planted in Stokenchurch woods, Oxford, where it is no 

 longer to be found. There are a good many other synonyms 

 visually given for the present species ; but not having seen authen- 

 ticated specimens, I do not venture to quote them, as T. grandifolia 

 and T. intermedia have been so much confused together that it 

 seems nearly impossible to unravel the knot of mystery that sur- 

 rounds them. The fruit is indeed the only infallible mode of 

 separating the two, as the other characters which have beeu 

 depended upon for the purpose are by no means constant. 



Large-leaved Lime. 



French, Tillevi ct, Grandes Feuilles. German, Breitbldttrige Linde. 



This is the wild Lime tree of Switzerland and the South of Europe, but is often 

 found in old plantations in England. There are some very large trees at Penshurst 

 and at Waltham Abbey, the plantation of which is of very ancient date. 8ume famous 

 old trees of this species in the churchyard of Seidiitz, in Bohemia, are reported to have 

 miraculously borne hooded leaves ever since the monks of the neighbouring convent 

 were all hanged upon them. 



SPECIES IT.— T ILIA INTERMEDIA. D.C. 

 Plate COLXXXVI. 



Reich. Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Til. Tab. CCCXIII. CCCXIV. Fig. .5138. 



T. europtea, "Linn." Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 59. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 78. &)i. Eng. Bot. No. 610. 

 T. vulgaris, " IIaj/7i." Fries, Mant. III. p. 199. 

 T. parvifolia, (i intermedia, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 145. 



Young branches and buds generally quite glabrous. Leaves 

 thin, rather finely serrate, almost always glabrou.s beneath. Cymes 

 corymbose, rather few-flowered. Nectariferous scales none. Pruit 

 woody, pubescent, sub-globular, apiculate at the apex, without 

 distinct ribs when the fruit is mature. 



In woods and hedges, but with scarcely a better claim to be 

 considered native than T. grandifolia. 



England? [Scotland, Ireland]. Tree. Summer. 



Very similar to T. grandifolia, but with the leaves usually 



