CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 37 



LIME TREE. BASS WOOD. AMERICAN LINDEN. LIN. BEE TREE. 



Northern New Brunswick, westward in British America to about the one hundred and second meridian, 

 southward to Virginia and along the Alleghany mountains to Georgia and southern Alabama; extending west" in 

 the United States to eastern Dakota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, the Indian territory, and southwest to 

 the valley of the San Antonio river, Texas. 



A large tree, 20 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 meter in diameter, or, exceptionally, 30 to 45 

 meters in height, with a trunk 0.92 to 1.84 meter in diameter (valley of the lower Wabash river, Ridgway); common 

 in all northern forests, and always an indication of rich soil; toward its western and southwestern limits only 

 along river bottoms. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, very close-grained, compact, easily worked ; medullary rays numerous, rather 

 obscure ; color, light brown, or often slightly tinged with red, the sap-wood hardly distinguishable ; specific gravity, 

 0.4525 ; ash, 0.55 ; largely used in the manufacture of woodenware and cheap furniture, for the panels and bodies 

 of carriages, the inner soles of shoes, in turnery, and the manufacture of paper -pulp (the quickly-discolored sap 

 renders it unfit for making white paper). 



The inner bark, macerated, is sometimes manufactured into coarse cordage and matting ; the flowers, rich iu 

 honey, highly prized by apiarists. 



Aqua tiliw, an infusion of the flowers, buds, and leaves of the difierent species of Tilia, is used in Europe as 

 a domestic remedy in cases of indigestion, nervousness, etc. {Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 1429). 



Var. pubescens, London, 



Arboretum, i, 374 & t. Browne, Trees of America, 48. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 103 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 5. 



T. Garoliniana, Miller, Diet. No. 4. Wangenheim, Amer. 56. Marshall, Arbustura, 154. 



T. Americana, Walter, Fl. Carollniana, 153 [not Linnreus]. 



* T. pubescens, Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii, 229; 2 ed. iii, 299. Willdenow, Spec, il, 1162; Ennm. i, 566. Ventenat in Mem. Acad. 



Sci. iv, 10, t. 3. Nouveau Duhamel, i, 228, t. 51. Persoou, Syn. ii, 66. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 37. Michaux f. 

 Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 317, t. 3; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 85, t. 133. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 363. De Candolle, Prodr. 

 i, 513. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 112. Elliott, Sk. ii, 3. Watson, Dend. Brit, ii, t. 135. Torrey, Comp. Fl. N. States, 215. 

 Don, Miller's Diet, i, 553. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 365. Beck, Bot. 59. Eaton &, Wright, Bot. 452. Penn. Cycl. xxiv, 

 447. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 237. Darby, Bot. S. States, 262. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 59. Curtis in Eep. Geological Surv. 

 N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 79. Walpers, Ann. vii, 449. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 479. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 7. 



r. laxiflora, Michanx, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 306. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vii, 683. Persoon, Syn. ii, 66. Willdenow, Enum. 

 Suppl. 38. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 513. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 113. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 215. Don, Miller's 

 Diet, i, .553.- Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 365. Beck, Bot. 59. Spaoh, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. ii, 343, 1. 15; Hist. Veg. iv, 32. 

 Browne, Trees of America, 48. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 237. 



T. grata, Salisbury, Prodr. 367. 



T. pubescens, var. leptophylla, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 63. 



t T. Stenopetala, Rafinesqne, Fl. Lndoviciana, 92. Robin, Voyages, iii, 484. 



T. truncata, Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. ii, .342; Hist. Veg. iv, 30. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 237. 



T. Americana, var. Walteri, Wood, CI. Book, 272: Bot. & Fl. 64. 



North Carolina to the Chattahoochee region of western Florida, usually near the coast ; Houston, Texas (B. 

 Ball). 



A small tree, rarely exceeding 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 meter in diameter; swamps or low ground ; 

 rare, or often confounded with the typical T. Americana. 



Wood lighter, but not otherwise distinguishable from that of T. Americana; specific gravity 0.4074; ash, 0.66. 



18. Tilia heterophylla, Ventenat, 



Mem. Acad. Sci. iv, 16, t. 5. Nouveau Duhamel, i, 229. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vii, 683.- Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 363.- Nuttall, 

 Genera, ii, 3; Sylva, i, 90, t. 23 ; 2 ed. i, 107, t. 23. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 513. Dou,Millei-'s Diet, i, 553. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 365. 

 Spach in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. ii, 345; Hist. Veg. iv, 34. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 239. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 452. 

 Penn. Cycl. xxiv, 447. Walpers, Rep. i, 359. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 237. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 

 60. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 79. Wood, CI. Book, 272 ; Bot. & Fl. 64. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 

 103. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 7. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 1429. Ridgway iu Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 61. 



T, alba, Michanx f. Hist. Arlj. Am. iii, 315, t. 2 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 84, 1. 132 [not Waldstein & Kitaibel]. Eaton & 

 Wright, Bot. 452. Darby, Bot. S. States, 262. 



T. laxiflora, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, :563 [not Michaux]. Elliott, Sk. ii, 2. 



T.Americana, var. heterophylla, Loudon, Arboretum, i, 375 & t. 



T. heterophylla, var. alha, Wood, Cl. Book, 272 ; Bot. & Fl. 64. 



