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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



of the tree, and conspicuously reticulate- venulose, and at maturity thick, dull yellow- 

 green, pubescent or glabrous above, rusty or pale tomentose below, sometimes becoming 



Fig. 674 



nearly glabrous in the autumn, 2|'-4' long and 2'-3' wide; petioles slender, tomentose, 

 l'-l^' in length. Flowers |'-f ' long, on slender pubescent pedicels, in compact slender- 

 branched pubescent mostly 10-15-flowered corymbs; peduncle slender, densely pubes- 

 cent, the free portion l'-l' in length, its bract oblong to obovate, rounded at apex, 

 rounded or cuneate at base, pubescent, becoming nearly glabrous, 2|'-4' long and 

 2'~H' wide, decurrent to the base or to within 1' of the base of the peduncle; sepals 

 ovate, acuminate, coated on the outer surface with pale pubescence and on the inner 

 surface with pale hairs longest and most abundant at the base, not more than one-half the 

 length of the lanceolate acuminate narrow petals; staminodia oblong-obovate to spatu- 

 late, acute, about two-thirds as long as the petals; style glabrous or furnished with a few 

 hairs at the very base. Fruit ripens early in September on pubescent pedicels, depressed- 

 globose, occasionally slightly grooved and ridged, covered w 7 ith thick rusty tomentum, \'- 

 |' in diameter. 



A small tree, with slender branchlets thickly coated during their first season with pale 

 tomentum, and dark red-brown or brown and puberulous in their second year. Winter- 

 buds covered with rusty brown pubescence, ~ long- 

 Distribution. Coast of South Carolina, near Charleston; Colonel's Island near the mouths 

 of the North Newport and Medway Rivers, near Dunham, Liberty County, and at Bruns- 

 wick, Glynn County, Georgia, to central and western Florida. 



Tilia georgiana var. crinita Sarg. 

 Tilia pubescens Sarg., in part, not Vent. 



Differing in the longer and more matted usually rusty brown hairs of the pubescence, 

 usually less closely attached to the under surface of the leaves and often conspicuous on the 

 young branches. 



A tree, 30-40 high, with a trunk rarely exceeding 15' in diameter, and slender branchlets 

 densely rusty pubescent during their first season, and during their third year becoming 

 glabrous, red-brown, rugose and marked by occasional small lenticels. Winter-buds acu- 

 minate, dark reddish brown and covered with short reddish pubescence. Bark of the 

 trunk !'- f ' thick, furrowed and divided into parallel ridges, the red-brown surface broken 

 into short thick scales. 



Distribution. Sandy w r oods near Bluffton, Beaufort County, and in the neighborhood 



