Pl.ex.thal. 69. TILIACE^. .-Bgi. Tilia. (537 



2. Tilia plalyphylla. Broadleaved linden. 



Leaves heartshape, roundish, pointed, unequally serrated; 

 carcerule topshape, woody, thick ; ribs prominent. 



Tilia vulgaris platyphyllos. Rait Syn. 473, 1. 



Tilia fasinioa, Ger. em. 1298, I. 



Tilia faBinina major, Park. 1407. 



Tilia Europasa,'!.//!. S. P. 733. 



Tilia platyphylla, De Candolle Fl. Gall. 4504. 



JLimf. tree. F&male lime tree. Bast. 



Woods and hedges ; arborescent ; July. 



Branches smooth ; leaves bald, villous beneath the ribs 

 and veins ; peduncles axillary, cor3'mbose-; flowers sweet- 

 scented, yellowish. — Plant bears cutting; bark fibrous, af- 

 fording coarse lines by maceration; wood soft, without 

 knots, used for carved and turnery work, and to cut upon; 

 leaves used as fodder for cattle ; flowers in infusion a plea- 

 sant antispasmodic; fruit affords a buttery substance re- 

 sembling chocolate. 



&. rubra. Leaves \ia\vy \ twigs red; carcerwZei 4-angled. 



Tilia foliis molUter hirsutis, viminibus rubris, fructu tetragono, Rait 



■ Sj/n.473,3, 

 Red lime. 



y. ulmifolia. Leaves like those of the elm ; carcerules 

 6-sided. 



Tilia ulmifoiia^ semine hexagono, Dillen in Raii Si/n. 473, 4> 



Fam.V. 70. MALVACE^. 



Calyx mostly double; inner calyx 1-leaved; outer I or 

 many-sepaled ; petals hypogynous, regular, often soldered 

 to the lower part of the tube of the stamens, rather co- 

 hering at bottom ; stamens hypogynous, indefinite, mona- 

 delphous ; androphore tubular, petal-bearing, divided at 

 top ; anthers kidneyshape ; ovary free, simple, often lobed ; 

 style 1, sheathed by the androphore; stigmata many; fruit 

 (in natives) many-coqued; coques 1-seeded, not opening; 

 perisperm 0, or very thin, mucilaginous ; corculum cui'ved ; 

 cotyledons leafllike, plaited. — Stem herbaceous or under- 

 shrubby ; leaves alternate, simple, stipuled ; flowers axillaiy. 



Outer calyx 3-sepaled Malva. 392. 



Outer calyx 6 to 9-cut Alth^a. 393. 



Outer calyx 3-cut Lavatera. 394. 



I. 392. MALVA. Pliny. Mallow. 



Calyx double; inner 5-cut'; outer 3-sepaled; coqves 

 many, in a circle, 1-seeded, not opening. 



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