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in colour, and the axillary ones appressed to the 

 branches. 



The leaves are usually larger than those of the 

 Sycamore, and thinner, greener, and more glabrous; 

 also more deeply five to seven-lobed, and the seg- 

 ments sharply pointed, the petiole longer and more 

 slender. 



Flowers larger, and in erect corymbs; the petals 

 spreading and delicate in texture. 



Fruits with the wings diverging at an angle of 45 or 

 more. 



Wood almost undistinguishable from that of the 

 Sycamore. 



Seed and seedling much as before, but the cotyledons 

 crack across, and the first leaves are slightly lobed and 

 not serrate. 



- 27. LIME-TREE. 

 Tilia europea (L.). Tiliaceae. 



Large tree with rounded crown. Bark of old trees 

 grey and resembles that of Oak; twigs and young 

 branches smooth, varying from red-brown to green- 

 yellow. 



Buds rather large, ovoid, obtuse, smooth, showing 

 two or three scales only, and of the same colour as the 

 twigs. The terminal bud often abortive each year. 

 Leaves on long petioles, alternate, obliquely cordate- 

 acuminate, serrate, glabrous or nearly so. 



Flowers small, greenish-yellow, odorous; in long- 

 stalked, pendulous corymbose cymes, among the leaves 



