176 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Travellers relate that the famous Kowno hoiipy is niafle exclusively from the blossoms 

 of this tree. Pallas tells us that the "lissez," or genuiue Liiideu honey, which is of a 

 greenish colour and delicious taste, flows from the same source, and is taken from the 

 hive immediately after the Lime tree has been in blossom. In Lithuania, where immense 

 forests of the Lime grow, the honey collected from the flowers is very valualile. The 

 peasants make holes in the large trees, which the bees soon convert into hives, and the 

 combs are removed when full. This honey fetches a large price in the markets, for it 

 is thought to be a valuable remedy in lung diseases. Tea made from the blossoms of 

 the Lime tree is soft, well-flavoured, and sweet, in taste resembling liquorice, and is 

 much used in France as a hypnotic in cases of sleeplessness. During the last 

 century Missa, a French chemist, found that the fruit of the Lime ground up with 

 some of the flowers in a mortar furnished a substance resembling chocolate in 

 flavour. Some attempts were made in Prussia to introduce the manufacture of this 

 Lime chocolate, but it was abandoned on account of the liability of the paste to 

 decompose ; were some means found to remedy this defect, it might still become a 

 pleasant and nutritious article of diet. The Lime is not used in medicine at the present 

 day, but the old physicians thought highly of it as an antispasmodic. Tlie real value 

 and uses of the tree are so numerous, that in the days of Pliny it was called '• the tree 

 of a thousand uses ;" and this perhaps is the reason why we find fewer imaginary virtues 

 ascribed to it than to many less really valuable. 



;. SPECIES III.— T I LI A PARVIFOLIA. Ehrh. 



Plate CCLXXXVII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. TU. Tab. CCCXI. CCCXIL Fig. 5i:57. 

 T. parviflora, var. o, polyantha, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 145. 

 T. sylvestris, Dei<f. Gr. & Godr. Fl. deFr. Vol. I. p. 286. 

 T. microphylla, Willd. Eiium. Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 505. 



Young branches and buds glabrous. Leaves rather thick, 

 finely serrate, glabrous beneath. Cymes corymbose, rather many- 

 flowered. Nectariferous scales none. Fruit like parchment in con- 

 sistence but brittle, pubescent, "at length nearly glabrous" (Brit. 

 FL), obovate, " slightly oblique " (Bab. Man.), acuminate witli 

 very indistinct elevated ribs. 



In TTOods. Probably truly native in many of the old woods in 

 England; also marked as a native in Dr. Moore's list of Irish 

 plants. 



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



In this species the leaves are considerably smaller than in the 

 two preceding, being from 1^ to '2\ inches across ; in texture they 

 are firmer, and glaucovis and glabrous beneath, except the usual 

 tufts of hairs in the forks of the veins ; the petioles are longer 

 in jiroportion. The flowers are more numerous, with shorter 

 pedicels, although the peduncle of the cyme is longer in propor- 

 tion. The fruit is about j inch long, much less woody, and the 



