CHAP. XVII I. 



TlLIA^CEiE. Ti'lIA. 3G5 



and Sussex. {Don's Mill., i. p. 552.) This variety appears to be the 

 male linden tree of Gerard ; the timber of which, he says, is much 

 harder, more knotty, and more yellow, than the timber of the other 

 sort; and not very different from the timber of the elm tree. This 

 sort we conceive to have originated in inferior soils and situations ; 

 for example, in the rocky parts of the north of Sweden, and in the 

 nilly districts of the north of Germany. This variety, according to 

 Steven (Nonv. Mem. de la Soc. Imp. de,i JVat. dc Moscou, tomeiii.), 

 is found here and there in the woods of Tauria; also in Iberia, and 

 on this side Caucasus. It varies, he says, in a wonderful manner, 

 in the fort • of the fruit, in the sinus at the base of the leaves, and 

 in the proportion of the disk of the leaves to the petioles, as well 

 as in the number of flowers in a cyme, colouring of the twigs, 

 &c. ; whence he agrees with Sprengel in uniting T. triflora, T. in- 

 termedia, &c., which are usually separated by authors. We doubt 

 much if this, or any other variety, is indigenous in Britain ; but it 

 exists in plantations, and is recognised as a distinct variety by prac- 

 tical men, the wood being preferred by pianoforte-makers. Sir 

 James Edward Smith says, " This species being planted along with 

 T. europae'a, and T. grancUfolia, in avenues or parks, will insure 

 a longer succession of flowers than either of the others alone." 

 This variety is distinguishable, at first sight, from all the others, by 

 the smallness of its leaves, which are only about 2 in. broad, and 

 sometimes scarcely longer than their slender footstalks. The flowers 

 are also much smaller than in any of the other varieties j and they 

 are very fragrant, having a scent like those of the honeysuckle. 

 There appears to be a subvariety of this in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, under the name of T. parvifolia 

 glaiica. 



i T. <?. 3 plati/phjlla. The brood-lccived European Lime Tree. 



Si/noni/mes. T. platyphylla .Srop. ; T. C0TA\(b\ia Sess. ; T. europas'a De.tf.; T. grandifblia 

 E/irh. and Sm/t/t ; broad.leaved downy Lime Tree j Tilleul k grandes I'euilles, or Tilleul 

 de HoUande, Fr. 

 Engravings- Vent. Diss., p. 6. t I. f. 2. ; Bull. Fr., 1. 175. ; Gajrtn., 2. 1. 113. : and our 

 plate in Vol. II. 



Description. Petals without scales. Leaves cordate, roundish, 

 acuminated, sharply serrated, downy beneath, origin of their veins 

 woolly. Branches hairy. Cymes 3-flowered. Fruit woody, downy, 

 turbinate, with 5 prominent angles. {Don's Mill., i. p. 553.) This 

 tree is of about the same size as T. europae^a, from which it is 

 readily distinguished by its larger and rougher leaves, and, also, by 

 its rougher bark and hispid branches. T. europse'a, T. e. micro- 

 phylla, and T. e. platyphylla, may be seen together, in a young 

 state, in the London Horticultural Society's Garden ; and, full- 

 grown, in the avenue at Syon House : in both places they are 

 readily distinguishable from each other, and are perfectly distinct ; 

 not, we think, as species, but as races. According to Sir James 

 Edward Smith, T. platyphylla is the lime tree of the south of 

 Eiu-ope, as T. europae^a is of the north ; and he is of opinion that 

 they are unquestionably distinct species. Steven (in Nouv. Mem. 

 Sfc., tome iii. ISSi.) says, that, though T. platyphylla is cited in 

 the Flora Taurico-Caucasica, as common in Tauria and Caucasus, 

 he never found it there, or knew of its having been observed in 

 those regions. There is a subvariety of this sort, called T. e. platy- 

 phylla minor, with leaves somewhat smaller than those of T. e. 

 platyphylla, but the difference is so trifling that it is not worth while 

 keeping it distinct. 



i T. f. 4 rubra. The red-twigged European Lime Tree. 



Sijnomjmcs. T. triflbra Pucy, in Horn. Cat., 2. p. 493. ; T. corintliiaca £osc ; T. toralliiia 



