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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



96. niia enropEB^a. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Petals without scales. Leaves cordate, acuminated, ser- 

 rated, smooth, except a tuft of hair at the origin of the veins beneath, twice 

 the length of the petioles. Cymes many- flowered. Fruit coriaceous, 

 downy. (Don's Mill.) A large deciduous tree. Europe, and Britain in 

 some aboriginal woods. Height 60 ft. to 90 ft. Flowers yellowish white; 

 August and September. Fruit yellow ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 

 yellow, or yellowish brown. Naked young wood reddish, or yellowish 

 brown. 



Varieties. The extensive distribution and long cultivation of this tree in 

 Europe have given rise to the following varieties, or races, described by 

 most botanists as species : 



A. Varieties differing in respect to Foliage, 

 S T. e. 1 parvifolia. T. microphylla Vent., Willd., Dec., and G. Don ; T. 

 e. var. y L. ; T. ?dmif61ia Scop. T. sylvestris Desf. ; T. parvifolia 

 Ehrh., Hai/nc Dend. ; T. cordata Mdl. ; Tilleul a petites Feuilles 

 Fr.; kleinbliittrige Linde, or Winterlinde, 6^-. (Willd. Holzart, 

 t. 106.; Engl. Bot., t. 1705.; and our /g. 97.) 

 Leaves cordate, roundish, acuminated, sharply 

 serrated ; smooth above, glaucous and bearded 

 beneath on the axils of the veins, as well as 

 in hairy blotches. Fruit rather globose, hardly 

 ribbed, very thin and brittle. Native of Europe, ,^^. 

 in sub-mountainous woods ; in England, frequent 't-fc^ 

 in Essex and Sussex, This variety is distinguish- ' " 

 able, at first sight, from all the others, by the 

 smallness of its leaves, which are only about 2 in, 

 broad, and sometimes scarcely longer than their 

 slender footstalks. The flowers are also much 

 smaller than in any of the other varieties ; they expand later ; and 

 they are very fragrant, having a scent like those of the honeysuckle 

 There was, in 1834, a subvariety of this in the garden of the Hort 

 Soc, under the name of T. parvifolia glauca. 

 ? T. e. 2 grandifolia. T. platyphylla Scop.; T. cordifolia Bess. ; T 

 europse^a Desf.; T. grandifolia Ehrh. and Smith; broad-leaved 

 downy Lime Tree; Tilleul a grandes Feuilles, or Tilleul de IIol- 



T. microphylla. 



