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56 SILVA OF NOETH A3IFRICA. TiLiACEiE 



low bluffs of the sea islands in rich loam mixed with oyster-shells, the remains of Indian settlements o 

 feeding-places, or along the hanks of tide-water streams in rich sandy humid soil. It grows here with 

 the Live Oak, the Hickories, the Palmetto, and the Carolina Cherry or Mock Orange ; never however 

 in sufficient numbers or of sufficient size to possess any commercial importance. 



The wood of Tilia j^uhescens does not differ in appearance from that of Tilia Americana. The 

 specific gravity of the absolutely di-y wood of a tree from Bainbridge, Georgia, is 0.4074, a cubic foot 

 of the dry wood weighing 25.39 pounds. 



Tilia puhescens was, according to Alton,^ who first distinguished the species, introduced into 

 England by Mark Catesby about 1726. The variety lejDtophj/Ua, with larger and thinner leaves was 

 established by Ventenat on the Louisiana tree.^ 



1 Hort. Kew. ii. 229. ceis, suhtus puhescmtibus, Mem. Acad. Sci iv. 11. — Pursh Fl. Am 



2 FoUis hasi oblique tmncatis, laxe serratis, tenuissimis, subpapyra- Sept. ii. 363. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. n. ser. sxii. 305. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Plate XXVI. Tilia Pubescens. 



1. A flowering branch. 



2. A group of stamens, with their petaloid scale, enlarged. 



3. A pistil, enlarged. . 



4. A cluster of fruit. 



6. Cross section of a fruit, enlarged. 



