TlLIACEAE. 



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GEEWIA. 

 (Family Tiliaceae). 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 

 rounded, somewhat fluted near the 

 tip, rather slender, hispid: pith 

 rather small, roundish, continuous, 

 white with somewhat greenish or 

 browning border. Buds small, 

 solitary, sessile, naked, hairy, the 

 end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars al- 

 ternate, 2-ranked, somewhat 

 crowded at tip, elliptical or half- 

 round, raised: bundle-trace elipti- 

 cal, compound: stipules setaceous, 

 hairy, persistent, surpassing the 

 buds. 



The winter-characters of Grewia 

 parviflora are pictured by Schnei- 

 der, f. 66. 



Twigs olive, with conspicuous len- 

 ticels when denuded. 



G. parviflora. 



Winter-character references to the limes or lindens: 

 Tilia americana. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 550, pi.; Brendel, 27, 29, 

 30, 31, pi. ^4; Hitchcock (1), 3, f. 2, (3), 8, (4), 134, f. 10-11; 

 Otis, 200; Schneider, f. 44, 66. T. cordata (T. parvifolia). 

 Bosemann, 68; Fant, 31, f. 31 ; Schneider, f. 32,129; Willkomm, 

 44, f; 75; Zuccarini, pi. 9. T. heterophylla (T. Michauxii). 

 Blakeslee & Jarvis, 550. T. japonica. Shirasawa, 263, pi. 8. 

 T. Miqueliana. Shirasawa, 263, pi. 8. T. platyphyllos (T. 

 grandifolia). Bosemann, 68; Fant, 31; Schneider, f. 129. T. 

 tomentosa. Schneider, f. 43, 129. T. vulgaris (T. europaea). 

 Blakeslee & Jarvis, 550; Ward, 1:186, f. 93. 



