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remarks, its presence could be detected at some miles distance through the apparently 

 dense forest by the white tops appearing at intervals among other trees. 



The finest tree of this species that we have seen grows at Albury Park, Sussex, 

 in front of the Duke of Northumberland's house, and measures 100 ft., or perhaps a 

 little more, in height, by 13I ft. in girth (Plate 373). The ascending branches seem 

 characteristic of this species, in cultivation at least, but this tree has an unusually 

 regular and perfect head. I was informed by the late Mr. Leach that at Albury the 

 flowers nf this tree are poisonous to bees, 1 whose dead or stupefied bodies are found 

 lying on the grass below it in August, and this observation is confirmed by Mr. 

 Comber at The. Hendre and by other observers. 



At Henham Hall, Suffolk, a tree measured 76 ft. by 8 ft. 10 in. in 1909. It is 

 grafted on the common lime, and is of the typical upright habit. At Hewell Grange 

 a large tree, with the bark decaying on one side, was 92 ft. by 9 ft. 8 in. in 1909. 

 At Dropmore there are two trees in the avenue to the Taplow gate, the larger 

 of which is about 70 ft. by n ft. 3 in. At Harpsden Rectory, Oxon., Henry saw two 

 trees, the larger of which was 80 ft. by 6 ft. 8 in. in 1 907. At Arley Castle, a round- 

 headed tree of upright habit measured 2 62 ft. by 6 ft. 9 in. in 1903. At Beauport, 

 Sussex, there is a tall but slender tree in a rather crowded situation, which has been 

 grafted at about 10 ft. from the ground. Dr. Masters reported 8 a tree of fine propor- 

 tions and symmetry at Strathfieldsaye, 70 ft. by 6 ft. 2 in., in 1899. Mr. Bean 4 saw 

 a tree 80 ft. high in the Royal Gardens at Sans Souci, Berlin. (H. J. E.) 



TILIA PETIOLARIS, Weeping White Lime 



Tilia petiolaris, J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 6737 (1884) (not De Candolle) ; Boissier, Fl. Orientalis, 



Suppl. 136 (1888). 

 Tilia alba, Koch, Dendrologie, i. 478 (excl. syn.) (1869) (not Aiton). 

 Tilia tomentosa, Moench, wax. petiolaris, Kirchner, in Petzold and Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 162 (1864); 



V. Engler, in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges., 1907, pp. 218-221. 

 Tilia tomentosa, Moench, var. sphcerobalana, Borbas, in Bot. Centralb. xxxvii. 168 (1889); V. Engler, 



Motwg. Gait. Tilia, 121 (1909). 



A tree, attaining 80 ft. in height, differing from the wild form of T. tomentosa, 

 as follows : Branches and branchlets pendulous ; leaves with long slender petioles, 

 exceeding half the length of the blade ; fruit globose, depressed at the summit, from 

 which arises a short stout style, very warty on the greyish surface, and divided by 

 five vertical furrows into as many lobes ; seeds 6 often imperfect. 



The leaves (Plate 407, Fig. 2) average about 3 in. across, and are obliquely 

 orbicular, cordate or truncate at the base, cuspidate at the apex, flat on the surface 

 and not wrinkled ; margin finely and regularly serrate, the teeth ending in short 

 points ; under surface covered with a dense white tomentum ; upper surface dark 



1 The flowers of the large tree of T. petiolaris at Kew are equally poisonous to bees. Cf. p. 1679, note 1 . 



2 R. Woodward, Hortus Arleyensis, 25 (1907). 

 3 In Gard. Chron. xxvi. 162 (1899). 4 Kew Bull. 1908, p. 395. 



6 Engler, out of fifty fruits which he examined, found only three with good seed, 1 to 2 in each fruit. 



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