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XVIII. HYPERICACE-a^. 



Name of obscure origin, perhaps from the Celtic • 



seeded. 



modern Gaelic, tlie Lime is called Telle. 



m 



ifolia 



(small 



leaves glabrous except a woolly tuft in the axils of th^ ^,^, 

 and veins beneath, branches and petioles glabrous, fruitVufnT 

 with filiform ribs chartaceous brittle at leno'th nearlv o-I^K^i ^ 



nerves 



T. microphjlla Vent 



nearly glabrous 



Woods in Essex, Lincolnshire, &c. Sussex, Wales; *« safely to ! 

 reckoned indigenous:" Borrer, f^ • TyS,~ Leaves when youn! 

 covered beneath with stellate hairs. Angels or ribs oH]\q fruit oh ^ 

 concealed by the pubescence before it falls off. ^^^ 



2. T. '^BuTopoi'a L. (common Z. or Linden-ti^ee) ; nectaries 

 none, leaves twice the length of the foot- stalks quite glabrous 

 except a woolly tuft in the axils of the nerves and veins beneath 

 branches and petioles glabrous, fruit coriaceous downy nearly 

 equal-sided with slightly prominent angles. E. B. t. 610.' T 

 intermedia DC. 



Woods and hedge-rows, probably not indigenous. \i , 7.— leam 

 pale beneath, but scarcely glaucous. A large and handsome tree • its 

 flowers '*at dewy eve distilling odours," yellowish-green, on a stalked 

 cyme, springing from a large lanceolate foliaceous bractea, which falls 

 off with the fructified ajmes. Best distinguished from the last by the 

 fruit, — Liun^us is said to have derived his own name from the 

 Swedish Zm, our Linden- or Lime-tree. 



3. T. 



*-'^ 



^b> 



6'' 



\dif6lia 



none, leaves downy especiallj beneath with solitary hairs, axils 

 of the nerves and veins woolly, young branches and petioles 

 hairy, fruit woody downy with prominent angles. E. B. S. 



and hedges, in several places; scarcely wild. Blair 

 Athol, Scotland. . Near Edinburgh. Ji. 6, 7. —The angles or ribs 

 of the fruit are often obscure when young, but are afterwards promi- 

 nent. The number of flowers in the umbel or cyme varies from 2 to 

 9 in all our British species. 



Wood 



Orb. XVIIL HYPEEICACE.E. 



Sepals 4—5, distinct or cohering, persistent, frequently with 

 glandular dots. Petals 4—5, with a twisted estivation and 

 often black dots. Stamens numerous (15 or more), polyadel- 

 plious,^ rarely monadelplious or quite distinct. Anthers small, 

 versatile. Omr^ single. Styles 3—5, rarely combined. Stig- 

 mas simple. Fruit a capsule of several valves, rarely baccate, 

 several-celled (or imperfectly so by the valves being curved 

 mwards, and scarcely meeting in the axis), or l-celled : dehis- 

 cence septicidal. Seeds minute, numerous, on a receptacle in 



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