CLASS XIII. ORDER I.) TILIA. 765 



Lindley has referred the T. corallina, of Smith, is a different species, 

 having the capsules smooth, and not downy, and without ribs. 



Very large trees of this species are spoken of in various countries of 

 Europe, and rendered famous from their great size, or by some senti- 

 mental tale or fabulous story. In the Church-yard at Sedlitz, in 

 Bobemia, are some famous old trees of this species, which are reported 

 to have miraculously borne hooded leaves ever since the Monks of a 

 neighbouring Convent were all hanged upon their branches ! ! 



3. T. parvifo'lia, Ehrh. (Fig. 870.) Small-leaved Lime Tree. 

 Leaves obliquely sub-rotundate, cordate, with an acuminated point, 

 unequally serrated, smooth, glaucous beneath, with tufts of hairs 

 scattered and at the axils of the veins ; fruit sub-globose, nearly 

 smooth, very fragile. 



English Botany, t. 1705. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 20. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 214. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 55. T. 

 mycrophylla, Vent. De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 513. 



A handsome spreading tree, with round smooth reddish brown 

 branches. Leaves alternate, from two to three inches across, with 

 rather long slender smooth footstalks, roundish, with an acuminated 

 often elongated point, obliquely cordate at the base, smooth, the mar- 

 gin acutely and unequally serrated, often lobed, pale and glaucous 

 beneath, with thick tufts of hairs scattered and at the axis of the lower 

 veins. Stipules ovate, obtuse, smooth, soon falling off. Inflorescence 

 axillary cymes, of numerous flowers, erect' on a long slender smooth 

 stalk, with an oblong lanceolate pale smooth foliaceous bractea. 

 Flowers very fragrant. Calyx with ovate acute pieces, downy. Petals 

 oblong, pale yellow. Stamens with slender filaments. Style straight, 

 simple, erect. Stigma five cleft. Capsule small, sub-globose, scarcely 

 downy, witJi thin fragile valves, mostly bearing only one seed. 



Habitat. Woods, plantations, and hedges, in various parts of 

 England. 



Tree; flowering in August. 



Lime, or Linden trees, are much esteemed for making groves, and 

 ornamenting the carriage roads of parks and pleasure grounds, though 

 not perhaps so much now as formerly. T. Europaea is the most 

 common in the North of Europe, and T. grandifolia in the Southern 

 parts ; it occasionally grows to an enormous size. Near Nenstadt, 

 in Wirtemberg, one is stated to be at least six hundred years old, 

 and its trunk is thirty-six feet in circumference; and one of great 

 size, which grew where the ancestors of Linnaeus had long resided, 

 is said to have given them its Swedish name of Linn, and hence 

 Linn-eus. The wood of the Lime-tree is light, soft, and close grained, 

 which qualities, together with the important one of its not being 

 liable to the attacks of insects, renders it valuable for earring into 

 ornaments, turning, &c. The splendid specimens of Gibbon's carvings 



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