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1. TIL'IA, L. LIME-TREE or LINDEN. 

 Trees with simple or stellate hairs. Leaves oblique, cordate, serrate. 



( '//"* axillary or terminal ; bract leafy, adnate to the peduncle. Sepals 5. 



Petals 5, with often a scale at the base. Stamens many, filaments free 



or united into bundles at the base. Ovary 5-celled ; style simple, stigma 



5-toothed. Fruit globose, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. Seeds ascending ; 



cotyledons broad, crumpled, with involute margins. DISTRIB. Europe, 



X. Asia, N. America ; species 8. ETYM. The old Latin name. 



1. T. parvifo'lia, L. ; glabrous, leaves pubescent in the axils of the 



nerves beneath, fruit crustaceous pubescent. 



Woods from Yorkshire southwards ; a doubtful native, Watson ; indigenous, 

 Borrer ; fl. July-Aug. A small tree. Leaves l^-2 in. diam., ovate-cordate, 

 acuminate, finely serrate, glaucous and glabrous beneath, upper obscurely 

 lobed. Flowers % in. diam. Fruit about | in. diam., faintly ribbed. 

 DISTRIB. Europe (excl. Greece and Turkey) and Siberia. This is probably 

 the English wild form of the continental T. europcea. 

 T. INTERME'DIA, DC. ; glabrous, leaves pubescent in the axils of the 



nerves beneath, fruit woody pubescent not ribbed when ripe. Common Lime. 



Woods and hedges, not indigenous ; fl. June-July. This is probably a sub- 

 species of T. eiwopoea,, L., which should include all the rest. 

 T. GRANDIFO'LIA, Ehrhart; twigs pilose, leaves downy beneath, fruit 



obovate-globose with 3-5 prominent ribs when ripe. Large-leaved Lime. 



Woods and hedges ; a denizen? Watson; fl. June-July. A tree 70-90 ft. high, 

 differing very little in foliage and floral characters from T. parvifolia. 

 DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards. 



YAH. cor alii' /ia, bark of young branches reddish brown. 



ORDER XIX. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, entire, 

 sometimes stipulate. Inflorescence cyrnose. Sepals 4-5, free or connate, 

 imbricate in bud. Petals 4-5, hypogynous, imbricate or twisted in bud. 

 Stamens 45, with alternating staminodes or 10 with the filaments 

 inserted on a hypogynous ring ; anthers versatile. Disk or glandular. 

 Ovary free, 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, stigmas terminal ; ovules 1-2 in each 

 cell, pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. Capsule septicidally 

 splitting into 2-valved cocci. Seeds compressed, albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 nearly as long as the seed, cotyledons plano-convex. DISTRIB. All 

 regions ; genera 14 ; species 135.- AFFINITIES, slightly with Malvacecc 

 and Geraniacece ; more close with Mal]riyhiacece- and Ternstrcemiacece. 

 PROPERTIES. Mucilaginous, oily, diuretic ; seeds occasionally purgative ; 

 bark fibnms (as in flax). 



Sepals 5, quite entire 1. Linum. 



Sepals 4, 2-4-toothed : 2. Eadiola. 



1. LI'NUM, L. FLAX. 



Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, narrow, quite 

 entire ; stipules or glandular. Flowers in dichotomous, panicled, race- 



