NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TREES. III. TILIA. I 
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8. TILIA NEGLECTA Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 2: 140, ¢. 15. 1834; 
Hist. Vég. 4:29. 1835.—Tilia americana Curtis, Rep. Geol. Surv. 
N. Car. 3:79 (not Linnaeus). 1860; Tilia pubescens Watson and 
Coulter, Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 71 (in so far as relates to Long Island) 
(not Aiton). 1889; Sargent, Silva N. Am. 1:55 (in so far as relates 
toLong Island). 1891; Robinson, Gray Syn. Fl. 1*:343 (in so far as 
relates to Long Island). 1897; Britton and Brown, Ill. Fl. 2:414 
(in so far as relates to Long Island). 1897; Tilia Michauxit Sargent, 
Man. 673. fig. 549 (not Nuttall). 1903; Robinson and Fernald, 
Gray’s Man. ed. 7. 565. 1908; Britton and Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2, 
513 (probably in part). 1913.—Leaves thick and firm, acute or 
abruptly narrowed and long-pointed at apex, obliquely concave or 
unsymmetrically cordate at base, coarsely serrate with straight 
apiculate teeth pointing forward, dark green, smooth, glabrous and 
lustrous above, covered below except on the midribs and veins more 
or less thickly with short gray pubescence often slightly tinged with 
brown, and furnished with conspicuous tufts of axillary hairs, usually 
11-14 cm. long and 6-11 cm. wide; petioles stout, glabrous, 3-6 cm. 
in length. Flowers about 1 cm. long, on pubescent or: nearly 
glabrous pedicels, in long-branched, slender, glabrous, mostly 5-15- 
flowered corymbs; peduncles slender, glabrous, the free portion 
3-4 cm. in length, the bract nearly sessile or raised on a stalk up to 
1.5 cm. in length, gradually narrowed and cuneate or unsymmetri- 
cally cuneate or rounded at base, rounded at apex, glabrous, 1-2 cm. 
wide and 7-15 cm. long, longer than the peduncle; sepals broadly 
ovate, acute, ciliate on the margins, glabrous on the outer surface, 
covered on the inner surface with long white hairs, about half as 
long as the lanceolate petals, rounded and notched at apex an 
rather longer than the spathulate staminodia; stamens included; 
style villose toward the base. Fruit ellipsoidal, ovoid, obovoid, or 
depressed-globose; rounded or acute or rarely gradually narrowed 
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