1918] SARGENT—TILIA 429 
globose, 6-7 mm. in diameter, covered with loose light brown 
pubescence. 
A tree 20~25 m. high, with stout, red, glabrous branchlets. Winter buds 
ovate, cylindrical, obtusely pointed, dark red, 7-8 mm. in length. Flowers 
during the first week of July. Fruit ripens the end of September. 
Rocky “coves” in rich soil, Hickory Nut Gap, in the Blue Ridge, North 
Carolina, W. W. Ashe, April, May, and October 1916 (distributed as 7. eburnea 
Ashe), T. G. Harbison, July 5 and September 21, 1917 (no. 2 type for flowers, 
no. 3 type for fruit); near Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina, T. G. Har- 
bison, July 4, 1917 (nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7)- 
TILIA VENULOSA var. multinervis, n. var—Differing from the 
type in its obliquely truncate, not cordate, leaves with 12 or 13 pairs 
of more crowded primary veins, ellipsoidal fruit, slender branchlets, 
and smaller winter buds. 
A single tree near Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina, T. G. Harbison, 
July 4 and September 20, 1907 (no. 6 type 
T. venulosa is one of the handsomest of the American lindens as it is one 
of the most distinct. Its relationship is with Tilia glabra, from which it differs 
in the venation of the more constantly cordate leaves without axillary tufts, 
tomentose when they unfold, in the bright red peduncles, in the red branchlets, 
and in the larger red winter buds. 
4. Tilia littoralis, n.sp—lLeaves ovate, unsymmetrical and 
rounded on one side and cuneate on the other, or symmetrical and 
cuneate or oblique and truncate at base, abruptly short-pointed 
and acute or acuminate at apex, finely serrate with straight or in- 
curved glandular teeth; when they unfold, covered above with scat- 
tered fascicled hairs and tomentose below, soon glabrous, and when 
the flowers open, thin, yellow-green, paler on the lower than on the 
upper surface, 8-10 cm. long and 4.5—6 cm. wide, with slender mid- 
ribs and primary veins and small conspicuous tufts of rusty brown 
axillary hairs; petioles slender, glabrous, 2.5-3 cm. in length; 
leaves on young vigorous shoots broadly ovate, truncate or slightly 
cordate at base, more coarsely serrate, pubescent with fascicled 
hairs especially on the midribs and veins, 1o-12 cm. long and 
-9 cm. wide, their petioles densely pubescent. Flowers 7-8 mm. 
long, on pale tomentose pedicels, in small, compact, mostly 9-15- 
flowered, pubescent corymbs; peduncle covered with scattered 
