CLASS Till. ORDER I.] TILIA. 763 



pieces, hoary, the two outer ones small, linear, the three inner ovate, 

 obtuse, with a membranous margin and prominent ribs. Petals 

 roundish, wedge-shaped, sometimes crenated on the margin. Stamens 

 numerous, with linear filaments, and roundish two celled anthers. 

 Style much curved at the base, slender, somewhat swollen upwards. 

 Stigma capitate. Capsule roundish ovate, more or less hoary, imper- 

 fectly three celled. Seeds numerous. 



Habitat. Rare in the South of England; Brent Downs, Somerset- 

 shire ; Babbicombe and Torquay Rocks, Devonshire. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



Excellent specimens of this extremely rare and beautiful species, as 

 well as other rare plants of Devonshire, have been obligingly forwarded 

 to us from the Torquay Station, by Miss Griffiths, whose mother is 

 well known as possessing perhaps a more extensive knowledge of our 

 marine plants than any other British Botanist, and at whose instigation 

 and, we believe, under whose superintendence a most beautiful collec- 

 tion,* amounting to between two and three hundred specimens, of those 

 plants found on the Devonshire coast, are published, and will, no 

 doubt, contribute to a better and more extensive knowledge and study 

 of this extremely interesting branch of Botany, than anything that has 

 before appeared in this country. 



GENUS VII. TI'LIA. LINN. Lime. 



Xat Orel. TILIA'CE^E. Jess. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx of five deciduous pieces. Petals five. Fruit 

 coriaceous, five celled, each cell two seeded. Name of doubtful 

 origin. 



8. T. Europa'a, Linn. (Fig. 868.) Common Lime or Linden-tree. 

 Leaves obliquely cordate, with an acuminated point, unequally ser- 

 rated, smooth, except a tuft of woolliness at the axis of the veins 

 beneath ; cymes many flowered ; fruit coriaceous, downy. 



English Botany, t. 610. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 17. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 214. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 54. T. 

 intermedia, Hayn. De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 513. 



A tall handsome tree, with spreading branches, clothed with a smooth 

 reddish brown bark. Leaves alternate, on round smooth slender foot- 

 stalks, from three to four inches broad, obliquely heart-shaped at the 

 base, with an acuminated often elongated point, the margin acutely 



* Alga; Diumonienses, or Dried Specimens of Marine Plants, principally 

 collected in Devonshire : carefully named, according to Sir W. J. Hooker's 

 British Flora, by Mary Wyatt, Torquay, Devonshire. 



