CAMKI.I.IACi:^. (CAMKI.LI.V FASIII.Y.) l'^3 



Order 21. TICIACE.13. (Linokn Family.) 



Treea {rarely herbs), wkh the mucilaginous properties, fibrous bark; 

 valvate calyx, S;c., of the Mallow Family; but the sepals deciduous, petals 

 imbricated in the bud, the stamens usually polyadelphous, and the anthers 

 2-celled: — represented in Northern regions only by the genus, 



1. TILIA, L. LiNDKN. Basswood. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, spatulate-oblong. Stamens numerous : filaments coher- 

 ing in 5 clusters with each other (in European species), or with the hasc of a 

 spatulate petal-like body plaied opposite each of the real petals. I'istil with a 

 5-eelled ovary and 2 half-ana Iro pons ovules in each, a single style, and a 5- 

 toothed stigma. Fruit a sort of woody globular nut, becoming 1-celled and 1 - 

 2-secded. Embryo with a taper radicle, and a pair of leaf-like somewhat heart- 

 shaped and lobed cotyledons, which arc a little folded. — Fine trees, with soft 

 and white wood, more or less heart-shaped and serrate leaves (oblique and often 

 truncate at the base), deciduous stipules, and small cymes of flowers, hanging on 

 an a.xillarv peduncle which is united to a leaf-like bract. Flowers crcam-coior, 

 honey -bearing, fragrant. (The classical Latin name of the genus.) 



1. T. Americana, L. (Basswood.) Leaves green and glabrous or 

 nearly so, thickish. — Rich woods, May, June. — This familiar tree is rarely 

 called Lime-tree, oficiicr ]VIiile-wo(Kl, commonly Basswood; the name (now obso- 

 lete in England) alluding to the use of the inner bark for mats and cordage. 



Var. pub6scens. Leaves softly pubescent underneath, often thin. (T. 

 pnbesccns, ,1//.) — Common from Maryland southward and westward. 



2. T. heterophylla, Vent. (White Basswood.) Leaves larger, 

 smooth and bri<;ht green above, silvery-whitened with a fine down underneath. 

 (T. alba, Micltx.) — Mountains of Penn. to Kentucky and southwanl. 



T. EuROpiA, the ErnopKAN Linden, which is planted in and near our 

 cities as an ornamental tree, is at once distinguished from any native species by 

 the absence of the petal-like scales among the stamens. This tree (the Lin) 

 gave the family name to- Linmeus. 



Order 22. CAITIELI.IACE.I:.* (Camellia Famfly.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple feather-veined leaves, and no stipules, 

 the regular flowers hyjiogynous and polyandrous, the sepals and petah both 

 imbricated in ceslivalion, the stamens more or less united at the base tcilh each 

 other (jnonadelphnus or 3-5-adelphous) and with the base of the petals. — 

 Anthers 2-eclled, introrse. Fruit a woody 3 - 5-celled loeulieidal pod. 

 Seeds few, with little or no albumen. Embryo large, with broad cotyle- 

 dons. — A family with showy (lowei-s, the types of which are the well- 

 known Camellia and the more important 'J'ea Plant, — represented 

 in this country by the two following genera. 



• N)une or same (late a»TEUNSXK(EMIAC£iE, and preferable. 



