TILIACE^. 



SILVA OF NORTH AI/LElilGA. 



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TILIA PUBESCENS. 



Linden. Basswood. 



Young shoots and lo-vver surface of the leaves covered with rufous pubescence. 

 Pedunculate bract usually rounded at the base. Truit globular. 



Tilia pubescens, Alton, I£(yrt. Kew. ii. 229. — "Willdenow, 

 Spec. ii. 1162, — Ventenat, Mem. Acad. Sci. iv. 10, t. 3. — 

 Nouveau Duhamel, i. 228. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 66. — Des- 

 fontaines, Hist. Arh. ii. 37. — Michaux f. Hist. Arh. Am. 

 iii. 317, t. 3. — Pursh, FL Am. Sept. ii. 363. — De Can- 

 dolle, Prodr. i. 513. — Hayne, Dendr. M. 112. — Elliott, 

 Sh. ij. 3. — Watson, Dendr. Brit. ii. t. 135. — Don, Gen. 

 Syst. i. 553. — Dietrich, Syn. iii. 237. — Chapman, Fl. 

 59. — Curtis, Bep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, iii. 79. — 

 Bayer, Verhandl. Bot. Verein, Wien, xii. 56. — Koch, 

 Dendr. i. 479. — Gray, Froc. Am. Acad. n. ser. xxii. 

 305. — Watson & Coulter, Gray^s Man. ed. 6, 101. 



T. Americana, Walter, Fl. Car. 153 (not Linnaeus). 



T. laxiflora, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 306. — Poiret, Lam. 



Diet. vii. 683. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 66. — Pursh, FL Am. 

 Sept. ii. 363. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 2. — De CamloUe, Prodr. 

 i. 513. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 113. — Dietrich, Syn. iii. 

 237. — Don, Gen. Syst. i. 553. — Spach, Aim. Sci. Nat. 

 2 ser. ii. 343, 1. 15 ; Hist. Veg. iv. 32. 



T. grata, Salisbury, Prodr. 367. 



T. tmncata, Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. ii. 342 ; Hist. Veg. 

 iv. 30. — Dietrich, Syn. iii. 237. 



T. Americana, var. pubescens, Loudon, Arh. Brit. i. 374, 

 t. — Gray, Man. ed. 5,103; Hall PL Texas, 5. — Sar- 

 gent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Cemm U. S. ix. 27. 



T. Americana, var. "Walter!, Wood, CL Book, 272 ; BoL & 

 Fl. 64. 



A small tree, thirty or forty feet in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding twelve or fifteen inches 

 in diameter. The bark of the trunk is a half to two thirds of an inch thick, furrowed, and divided into 

 numerous parallel ridges, the reddish brown surface broken into numerous short thick scales. The bark 

 of the branches, densely covered with pubescence during their first season, is puberulous during the 

 second, and does not become glabrous until the third year, when it is red-brown, rugose, and marked 

 with occasional small wart-like excrescences. The winter-buds are flattened, acuminate, dark reddish 

 brown, and covered with short fine pubescence. The leaves are obliquely truncate at the base, rather 

 remotely glandular-serrate, pubescent when they first unfold, especially on the lower surface, petioles and 

 stipules, the upper sui'face becoming quite glabrous, and the lower surface nearly so at maturity. They 

 are thin, membranaceous, and vary in length from two or three inches to four or five, and are borne on 

 long stout or sometimes exceedingly slender petioles. The pedunculate bract is three or four inches 

 long, usually sessile or very short-stalked, rounded at the two extremities, the midrib, as well as the 

 peduncle and flower-buds, covered with pubescence. The flowers are smaller than those of Tilia Amer- 

 icana, with shorter and narrower calyx-lobes and narrow petals. They open in South Carolina late in 

 May and during the first days of June. The ovary is covered with dense white tomentum which is pale 

 brown when the fruit is full grown. 



The northern station of Tilia jmhescens is on Long Island, where this tree has been found in a 

 swamp in "Wading River, Suffolk County.' It grows on the coast of North and South Carolina and 

 Georgia, in northern Florida, Louisiana, and occasionally in Texas, where it has been seen as far west as 

 the Rio Blanco.- 



Tilia 'pubescens is nowhere a common tree. On the coast of South Carofina and Georgia, where it 

 appears more frequently perhaps than in other parts of the country, it is usually found growing on the 



1 E. S. Miller, in -fJeri. Gray. several points between its isolated northern station and North Car- 



= By N. J. Reverchon in 1885 near the town of Blanco. The ollna, and any Linden approaching the coast of southern Now Jer- 



distrihution of Tilia pubescens is not yet satisfactordy determined. sey, or southw-ird, might he this species, which will no doaht be 



It will probably be found growing along the Atlantic seaboard at found, too, oa the Gulf coast of Alabama and Mississippi. 



