go POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Tilia. 



where there are, besides, small woolly tufts. Flower-stalks and 

 bracteas smooth, like the last, except that each mnbel consists, 

 almost universally, of 3 flowers only. These are highly fragrant, 

 with rather \ong^r stamens than the former. Germ, large, densely 

 hairy. Caps, finely and closely downy, with 5 or 6 angles, and as 

 many hard woody valves. 



T. grandifolia is the wild Lime-tree of Switzerland and the south 

 of Europe, as europcea is of the north. They are unquestionably 

 distinct species, though Ventenat was not aware of this, nor has 

 he thrown much light upon the Europsean Tilia, whatever he 

 may have done upon those of America. The specific names of 

 Ehrhart are prior to his, and greatly preferable, as being Latin, 

 like the generic one. Even .Ehrhart, usually so fond of hard 

 Greek names, seems to have felt the propriety of this principle. 

 I wish all writers would consider it. In Rees's Cyclopcedia the 

 name of corallina is preferred to grandifolia, for reasons there 

 given ; and in the 4th edition of the Compendium I was induced by 

 Dillenius to make four British species of Tilia. But this writer 

 has here, I believe, as in other instances, added to Ray's Synop- 

 sis a plant which was already described there by another name. 

 So Mr. E. Forster thinks. 1 therefore now unite the corallina 

 to grandifolia, giving a preference to the latter name, because 

 the red twigs seem not to be peculiar to any one species. The 

 above description, except what regards this circumstance, is 

 taken from the true grandifolia, nor have I been able to meet with 

 iheflowers or fruit of the /3, though my-excellent friends Prof. 

 Williams and Mr. Aiton have very obligingly made every possible 

 inquiry, the former at Oxford, and in the neighbouring country ; 

 and the latter at Kew, Osterly andSion, as well as in the Royal 

 plantations about Hampton Court and Windsor ; without any 

 success. The red twigs 1 suspect are most visible in the spring, 

 and they certainly are sometimes observable in T. europrea. 



Mr. E. Forster remarks that T. grandifolia occurs in very old plan- 

 tations as frequently as the europcea, but not in modern ones. 

 There are very large trees of it at Penshurst, and some at Wal- 

 tham Abbey, the plantation of which is of very antient date. 

 Mrs. Beecroft brought a specimen from Blair of Athol, where 

 are several old trees near the house. 



Some famous old Limes in the church-yard of Sedlitz in Bohemia, 

 reported to have miraculously borne hooded leaves, ever since 

 the monks of a neighbouring convent were all hanged upon them, 

 are our grandifolia. I have an original specimen. See Jacq. 

 Fragm. 19. t. U.f. 3. 



3. T. parvifolia. SmalMeaved Lime-tree. 



Nectaries none. Leaves smooth above ; glaucous beneath, 

 with scattered, as well as axillary, hairy blotches. Um- 

 bels compound, many-flowered. Capsule roundish, brit- 

 tle, nearly smooth. 



