106 THE LIME FAMILY. 



but slowly, with the large bracteae attached, the weight 

 of the fruit keeps it in a position above, which causes 

 it to spin in the air, like a shuttlecock, as it falls. 

 The name Tilia, is of obscure origin, perhaps from 

 the Celtic ; in modern Gaelic, the Lime is called Teile. 

 But its Swedish name of Lind, agrees with our name 

 of Linden or Lime-tree. There is one circumstance 

 connected with the Lime-tree, which should alone 

 render it a tree of peculiar interest to a Botanist. 

 Linnaeus, the great Swedish Botanist", is said to have 

 derived his own name, from its Swedish name of Lind. 

 The Bast matting, so useful to the gardener, is 

 the inner bark of the Lime-tree ; being exceedingly 

 strong. 



