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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Blue Ridge, and near Saluda, Polk County, passing into var. muliinervis Sarg., differing 

 from the type in its obliquely truncate, not cordate, leaves with 12 or 13 pairs of more 



Fig. 661 



crowded primary veins, ellipsoid fruit, slender branchlets, and smaller winter-buds; a single 

 tree near Saluda, Polk County. 



4. Tilia littoralis Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, abruptly short-pointed and acute or acuminate at apex, unsymmetric and 

 rounded on one side and cuneate on the other, or symmetric and cuneate or oblique and 

 truncate at base, and finely serrate with straight or incurved glandular teeth, covered 

 above when they unfold with scattered fascicled hairs and tomentose below, soon glabrous, 



Fig. 662 



and when the flowers open, thin, yellow-green, paler, rarely glaucous (var. discolor Sarg.) 

 on the lower than on the upper surface, 3'-4' long and lf-2' wide, with a slender midrib 



