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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART HL 
Hort. Kew.; T. europx‘a B ribra Sibthorp; T. europea y Smith’s Flor, Brit., 571.; 
T. grandifolia 8 Smith’s Eng. Flora, 8. 19. 
Description. This variety is distinguished by the redness of its 
young branches, and it may be properly considered as a subvariety 
of all the above races or kinds. In Sweden, where lime woods 
extend over the low part of the country for many miles together, 
the common lime tree is met with, in some places, perhaps for a 
mile together, with the twigs bright red, yellow in others, and in 
others quite green. In the park at Shardeloes, near Amersham, in 
Buckinghamshire, may be seen large lime trees, all apparently of 
the commonest kind (7. europz‘a), some with yellow, others with 
red, and others with brown or green wood. In the garden ef the 
London Horticultural Society there is one variety with small leaves 
and bright yellow wood; and another, with the large rough leaves 
of T.e. platyphylla, and bright yellow wood. Our conclusion from 
these, and other facts that have come before us, is, that there is a 
red-twigged and yellow-twigged variety or subvariety of 7. eu- 
rope‘a, of Ze. microphylla, and of 7. e. platyphylla; and that 
T.ribra Dec. can be nothing more than a variety of 7. e. platy- 
phyla. 
+ T. e. 5 lacinidta. The cut-leaved European Lime Tree. 
Synonymes. T. platypb¥lla laciniata Hort. 
Engravings. Our piate in Vol. IT. 
Description. The leaves are smaller than those of the common 
species, and deeply and irregularly cut and twisted, scarcely two on 
the tree being alike. This variety is seldom seen of a large size ; as 
might be expected from the diminished power of the leaves, in 
consequence of their diminished surface. We have never heard of 
its attaining a greater height than 30 ft. - 
The golden-twigged European Lime Tree. — Differing 
from the species in the yellowness of its twigs; and, apparently, 
not so vigorous in its growth as any of the other varieties, except 
T. e. laciniata. (See our plate in Vol. II.) 
The golden-twigged broad-leaved European Lime 
Tree.—This differs from the common broad-leaved lime in no other 
respect than in the yellow colour of its twigs. It is, in winter, a 
very distinct and very handsome variety, and may be procured in 
some of the London nurseries. There is a small tree in the London 
Horticultural Society's Garden. 
* T. e. 8 dasistyla. The hairy-styled European Lime Tree. T. da- 
systyla Steven. — This is described-as having petals without scales ; 
leaves smooth, somewhat hairy at the base beneath ; axils of veins 
bearded; style tomentose. It is found on the south-west coast 
of Tauria, at the base of the mountain Castel Dagle, where there 
is one tree near the public road. Steven considers it as satis- 
factorily distinct in the form of its fruit, and especially in the 
hairiness of its style. To us it appears that this variety bears the 
same relation to the species that Cratz‘gus Oxyacantha eriocarpa 
does to the species. 
Other Varieties. There is a variety with variegated leaves, but it is such 
_a ragged ill-looking plant that we deem it altogether unworthy of culture, 
_There are some names of varieties in nurserymen’s catalogues, which we 
have not thought worth a detailed notice; the slightest deviation being 
-often eagerly seized on for the sake of producing something new. In the 
Bollwyller Catalogue for 1833, we have 7’. aspleniifolia nova, which, we pre- 
sume, is a subvariety of 7. europz‘a laciniata ; and M. Baumann informs us 
that they have lately discovered a new variety of J. e. adrea in a forest in 
‘their neighbourhood. 
In the Botanic Garden of Antwerp, there is a plant 
