84 TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



gray-tomentose with stellate hairs, with very small 

 and inconspicuous tufts of rusty hairs in the axils of 

 the veins beneath; fruit bract 2-3 inches long, about 

 %-% inch broad, thinly stellate tomentose beneath, 

 almost sessile and quickly contracted at base, at- 

 tached to the peduncle for only %-!% inch, the free 

 portion of the peduncle being about %-!% inch 

 long ; fruit densely gray tomentose. It is beautiful in 

 cultivation and like the other Lindens is a favorite 

 with the bees. ' The form of lower elevations is pro- 

 bably what has been described by Ashe as T. eburnea 

 from foot hills of the Blue Ridge. It is said to differ 

 in having the under side of the leaves white-woolly 

 with longer hairs than in T. heterophylla. 



137. Tilia Michauxii Nutt. Michaux's Linden, White 

 Linden. 



This species is one of our rarest trees, and we 

 know of it certainly only from the mountains of Hay- 

 wood County. It differs from T. heterophylla,, its 

 nearest relative, in the denser and whiter tomentum 

 on the under surface of the leaves, and the longer, 

 more stalked and more gradually rounded floral 

 bracts which are densely white-tomentose beneath; 

 the leaves are also furnished with more conspicuous, 

 though small, axillary tufts of tawny hairs than in 

 the latter species. In our collection of T. Michauxii 

 the floral bracts are 2^-5% inches long, mostly over 

 4 inches long and gradually narrowed to the basal 

 stalk, which is ^4-^/2 i ncn 



