TILIACEÆ. all 
If we take, on the contrary, the flowers of some other species, 
such as 7! americana, nigra, argentea, &e., we see, with the same 
general organization, a difference in the androceum, inasmuch as the 
upper stamen of each phalanx is transformed into a sterile petaloid 
lamella, contorted or imbricated in the bud with the other oppositi- 
petalous staminodes.' The Limes are trees, often tall, with organs 
nearly glabrous, or besprinkled with fine, simple or stellate hairs. 
The leaves are alternate, simple, serrate, often cordate and unsym- 
Tilia sylvestris. 

Fie. 183. 
Seed (2). 
Fra. 182. 
Fruits. 
Fie. 184. 
Long. sect. of seed. 
metrical at the base. The petiole is accompanied by two lateral 
stipules. The flowers’ are united in racemes terminated by a flower, 
or in racemes of terminal or axillary cymes* The principal axis of 
the inflorescence bears several bracts, the lowest of which, much 
more developed than the others, elongated and foliaceous, remains 
adnate to the axis for a considerable distance, often nearly to the 
middle of its height. This genus, in which a great many species* 

Sect. Lindnera (Rutcus., Consp., 299). 
White or yellowish, aromatic. 
The inflorescence of the Limes has been, says 
rescence, “one more developed than the others, 
which terminated the principal axis, and six 
others, all of the same generation, which are 
wwe 
Payer (Organog., 20), “ the object of deep dis- 
cussion between WYDLER and BRUNNER: the 
latter maintaining that the cluster of flowers is 
a prolongation of the principal axis, and that 
the foliaceous bud to be seen at the base is only 
a lateral production ; the former holding, on the 
contrary, that the foliaceous bud is the prolonga- 
tion of the principal axis, and that the cluster 
of flowers is only a secondary order.” The same 
author bas shown that the bud is secondary and 
that the axis terminated by the flower is the 
principal. He saw in the species studied by 
him, seven flowers at a given time in one inflo- 
lodged in the axil of two stipulate bracts and 
their stipules,’ and decided that “if a greater 
number are seen afterwards, it is because each of 
these six flowers is accompanied in its turn by 
two new bracts, which are sterile or fertile.” 
The bracts are distichous. We find first a large 
bract, later on back to back with the axis, and 
always destitute of stipules on the other side, 
the bract with germeniferous axil which also 
bears no stipules on its side. The bracts 3 and 
4 superposed reciprocally to bracts 1 and 2, are 
accompanied by two small lateral stipules. 
4 Reicus., Ze. Fl. Germ., vi. 311-324,— 
