TILIACE^E 675 



faintly tinged with red, with thin hardly distinguishable sap wood of 5 or 6 layers of 

 annual growth. 



Distribution. Rich wooded slopes in moist soil or near the banks of streams; 

 often on limestone; near Ithaca, New York, southward along the Appalachian 

 Mountains to northern Alabama, and westward to middle Tennessee, Kentucky, and 

 southern Indiana and Illinois; most abundant and of its largest size on the high 

 mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



6. Tilia pubesceus, Ait. Linden. Bass Wood. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, obliquely truncate at the base, coarsely glandular-ser- 

 rate, when they unfold dark red and coated above with matted pale hairs and hoary- 

 tomentose below, and at maturity membranaceous, dark green, pubescent or glabrous 



above, rusty-tomentulose below, usually 4'-5' long, 2^'-3' wide, their petioles slender, 

 at first tomentose, becoming glabrous, about |' long. Flowers appearing in May; 

 pedunculate bract decurrent to the base of the peduncle, hardly obovate, sometimes 

 falcate, 3'-4' long, about f wide, villose on the upper, glabrous on the lower surface; 

 peduncle slender, stellate-pubescent, the free portion about \\' long; pedicels short, 

 stellate-pubescent; sepals narrow-acuminate, pale-tomentose on the outer, sparingly 

 hairy on the inner surface, about \' long, and rather shorter than the narrow acumi- 

 nate petals. Fruit subglobose to short-oblong, \'-\' in diameter, rusty tomentose. 



A tree, 30^40 high, with a trunk rarely exceeding 12'-15' in diameter, and slen- 

 der branchlets densely rusty stellate-pubescent during their first season, becoming 

 glabrous during their third year, red-brown, rugose and marked by occasional small 

 lenticels. Winter-buds acuminate, dark reddish brown, covered with short rusty 

 pubescence. Bark of the trunk '-' thick, furrowed and divided into numerous 

 parallel ridges, the red-brown surface broken into numerous short thick scales. 

 Wood light brown faintly tinged with red, with thick hardly distinguishable sap- 

 wood. 



Distribution. Coast of North Carolina southward in the neighborhood of the 

 coast to northern Florida, and westward along the Gulf coast to the valley of the Rio 

 Blanco, Texas, and southern Arkansas; not common. 



