1902] BRIEFER ARTICLES 231 
assigned by Professor Sargent in his Sy/va, and in the sixth edition of 
(Gray's Manual, and in Britton and Brown’s Vora of the Northern States. 
In 1892 the writer collected specimens of a linden from Fall creek, 
near Ithaca, N. Y., and in 1897 similar specimens from near Watkins 
glen, New York, which are undoubtedly from the white linden, having 
its close silvery pubescence on the lower surface of the leaves, and the 
globose fruit covered with short cinereous tomentum, characters 
-‘ommon to no other species of the eastern United States. 
n. sp.—A tree 10-22" in height,:with dark gray- 
brown iaioned bark on the trunk, and smoother silver-gray bark on 
the branches. Twigs stout, 5-6" thick, soft, glabrous, occasionally 
_ Sparingly glaucous, those of the season bright green, brown or red- 
brown, becoming gray the second year; buds large, ovate, ok ge 
sometimes glaucous. The leaves are ovate or round- ovate, 8-14™ long, 
ipa wide, abruptly acuminate at the apex, obliquely cordate or 
truncate at the entire base, sharply serrate, thick, dark green and 
above, densely pubescent beneath with soft white hairs which 
w€ sometimes deciduous by autumn ; petioles and primary veins glab- 
ete, often glaucous. The ee bract is ro—12™ long, oblong 
oF spathulate, rounded at the apex, rounded or acute at base, sessile or 
'Y 80, glabrate above, often soft-pubescent beneath. The flowers, 
ie appear about the middle of June, are smaller than those of Zilia = 
rephylla, and the sepals and peduncles more pubescent than inthat = 
“eS The vary and young fruit are densely pubescent with short _ 
: irs; the mature fruit is 5-7™" thick, globular or — : o 
er than long, and not pointed. ; 
heterophylla, which it much resembles and with which iti 
— 
ie very close cinereous pubescence that clothes the fruit of 4 
tore mere T. pubescens it is distinguished by having larger flowe 
abe. gy and d broader ee which is white edict! gray ° or — 
7008 cts on rich moist soil near ‘soul siteathe 0 or on 
‘tis cease associated with the red oak, red -— white 
- in North and South Carolina it — with the > whit : 
— aeaons which seems to be undescribed. 
