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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



villose toward the base. Fruit ripening in September, ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, or de- 

 pressed-globose, rounded or acute or rarely gradually narrowed and acuminate at apex, 

 rarely 5-angled, covered w r ith rusty or pale pubescence, usually about %' in diameter. 



Fig. 665 



A tree, 75-90 high, with a trunk sometimes 3 in diameter, smooth often pendulous 

 branches forming a broad round head, and slender glabrous branchlets. Winter-buds 

 ovoid, rounded at the narrowed apex, about i' long, with glabrous red-brown or light 

 brown scales. Bark of the trunk about 1' thick, deeply furrowed, pale reddish brown and 

 covered with small thin scales. 



Distribution. Rich moist soil, Province of Quebec, near Montreal, to the coast of Massa- 

 chusetts and New York, through the middle states to the valley of the Potomac River and 

 along the Appalachian Mountains to those of North Carolina, and to luka, Tishomingo 

 County, Mississippi, and from central and western New York to northern Missouri. 



. Tilia caroliniana Mill. 



Leaves ovate, oblique and truncate or cordate at base, abruptly long-pointed at apex, 

 coarsely dentate with broad apiculate glandular teeth pointing forward, and coated below 



Fig. 666 



