LIST OF FOREST-TREES. 



uncertain, but that it has been 



naturalized in Ihis country is cer- 



A lime b ribed by Dr. 



Tun-.. '.ing near Colchester, 



which nniNt h;. Cultivated in 



,uul before ]:><;_'. Du Hamel 



s that the French, in the i < 

 Louis Xl\"., growing tired of the horse 



:iut, adopted this tree; and Sir 

 James Smith, in his English Flora, 

 hat it generally composes 

 the avenues about the residences of 

 the French as well as English gentry 

 of that date, and that Fenelon, in 

 conformity to this taste, decorates 

 with ' flowery lime trees' his enchanted 



f Calypso. The fragrance of the 

 flowers are well known ; they consti- 

 tute an useful ingredient in pot-pourri. 



ure attracted, in great numbers, 

 to collect honey from the flowers, in 

 the season of flowering. The wood is 

 smooth, delicately white, and uniform 

 in its texture (vide p. 11, fig. p.) ; it is 

 observed to be little subject to the 

 attacks of insects. The beautiful 

 carvings of Gibbon, before mentioned, 

 which are dispersed about the king- 

 dom, as in the choir of St. Paul's, 

 Trinity College Library, at Cambridge, 

 the Duke of Devonshire's, Chats- 

 worth, Sec. are stated to be of this 

 wood*. It is also used by the turner 

 in manufacturing light bowls, and 

 boxes for the apothecary. The bark 

 contains much mucilage ; by macera- 

 tion it separates into thin toimh layers, 

 which are manufactured into garden- 

 mats, sometimes termed bast mats. 

 are well known to form a con- 



;ible part of the exports from 

 Rni 



The broad-leaved lime, tilia grandifnliu, 

 attai: si/.e as the com- 



mon linden ; the young wood of the 



's is often red. The leaves have 



rather lor., 'a.ks, the ///-* and 



minutely hairy, or curiously 



in- origin of each ; all 



tin- under side of the leaves is finely 



1 ulaurous as iu the 



and American limes 



'y, has 



\Yhitstab.' .,nks oi 



the M 



tcr ; .itham \Yells, g 



'r. Dubois; and in Stoken-church 



ETclyu's Sylv*. 



woods by Mr. Bicheno, but appa- 

 rently planted*. This is stated to be 

 the wild lime of Switzerland and the 

 south of Europe, as the common spe- 

 cies, eurojtfS'a, is of the north. The 

 coral lime, is so nearly allied to this 

 species, as to be considered by some 

 botanists a variety only. 



The small-leaved lime, tilia parvifolia, 

 flowers about a month later than the 

 last-mentioned tree. It is supposed 

 to be the only true native species of 

 lime. It is to be found frequent in 

 Essex, Sussex, and Lincolnshire, and 

 elsewhere, according to Ray. The 

 leaves are much smaller than those of 

 the above, being about two inches 

 broad, dark green, and quite smooth 

 above, glaucous underneath, with 

 brown hairy tufts at the origin of each 

 of their principal veins, as well as 

 broad hairy blotches frequently found 

 scattered over their surface. The 

 comparative value of the timber of 

 these last-mentioned species has not 

 yet been determined. Among the 

 American species of this tree the 

 smooth or bass-wood, tilia Americana, 

 is distinguished. Michaux informs 

 us that he found it most abundant in 

 Gennesse, which borders on Lake Erie 

 and Ontario. In some districts be- 

 tween Batavia and New Amsterdam, 

 it constitutes two-thirds, and some- 

 times the whole of the forests. It 

 attains to the largest size in a loose 

 deep fertile soil. It is found 80 feet in 

 height, and 4 feet in diameter. The 

 wood is white and tender, and is, in 

 some places, substituted for that of 

 the tulip-tree for the panels of car- 

 riage bodies, and the seats of "Windsor 

 chairs. 



The white lime, tilia alba, is chiefly 

 found on the banks of the Ohio, Sus- 

 quehanna, and those of the streams 

 which empty into them. The same 

 authority observes, that it rarely ex- 

 ceeds .10 teet in height, and 12 or 18 

 inches in diameter. 



The downy lime, tiliii pubescens, is a 

 native of the Floridas, and Southern 

 parts of the United States. It re- 

 sembles the American lime tree more 

 than the preceding. The leaves are 

 iv downy on their under side, ob- 

 liquely truncated at llu- base, and 

 d with fewer teeth than the other 



* Engl.Fl., vol. iii. p. jy. 



