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Bulletin of the University of Texas 



seeds and sweet flesh. Along streams and on hillsides, Vir- 

 ginia to Missouri, Kansas, Florida and Texas, Planted for 

 ornament. 



TILIACEAE Jussien. Linden Family. 



Tilia L. The Bass Woods. 



Trees with mucilaginous sap, tough inner bark, alternate, 

 serrate, unequally cordate, or truncate leaves; flowers in ax- 

 illary clusters with penduncles attached to a conspicuous 

 bract ; fruit nut-like. 



Leaves smooth, beneath 1. T. Americana. 



Leaves more or less hairy beneath 2. T, leptpphylla. 



1. Tilia Americana L. A large straight trunked forest 

 tree, usually 60-70 high with spreading branches, gray bark, 



Fig-. 45. Tilia Americana. 



and light gray or brownish twigs. Occasionally larger, 100- 

 120 high. Leaves orbicular, firm, heart-shaped or truncate 

 at base, sharply serrate, smooth dark green above, yellow- 

 green and lustrous with hairs in the -axils of the veins be- 



