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his species as subpentagynous, and his figure represents a fruit with 5 distinct 
ridges. I have not seen such fruits on any specimens of wild trees, but they 
occur on two specimens of cultivated trees in the herbarium of the Arboretum, 
one from Germany and the other from Rochester, New York. On a tree culti- 
vated in Goldsboro, North Carolina, the fruit is ellipsoidal and borne in 
unusually long-branched clusters. 
g. TILIA CAROLINIANA Miller, Dict. ed. 8. 1758.—Tilia pubes- 
cens Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2:229. 1789; Ventenat, An. Hist. Nat. 2:68. 
1800; Mém. Acad. Sci. Paris 4:10. #. 3. 1802; Elliott, Sk. 2:3. 
1824; Tilia multiflora, Hort. ex Ventenat in An. Hist. Nat. 2:64. 
1800; Tilia pubescens var. leptophylla Ventenat, l. c.; Tilia lepto- 
phylla Small, Fl. Southern States 762 (in part?). 1911.—Leaves 
ovate, oblique and truncate or cordate at base, abruptly long- 
pointed at apex, coarsely dentate with broad apiculate glandular 
teeth pointing forward, and coated below with a rusty or pale easily 
detached pubescence of fascicled hairs; when they unfold coated 
with hoary tomentum, soon glabrous on the upper surface, and at 
maturity dark yellow-green and lustrous above, 7-15 cm. long and 
6-12 cm. wide; petioles stout, glabrous, 2.5-4 cm. in length. 
Flowers 6-7 mm. long, on slender pubescent pedicels, in small 
stout-branched, pubescent, mostly 8-15-flowered corymbs; peduncle 
slender, pubescent, the free portion 2-3 cm. long, the bract nearly 
sessile, oblong-obovate, cuneate at base, rounded or acute at apex, 
when it first appears nearly glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent 
becoming glabrous or almost glabrous below, 2 cm. wide, longer or 
shorter than the peduncle; sepals ovate, acuminate, ciliate on the 
margins, brown and covered with pale pubescence on the outer 
- surface, coated on the inner surface with long white hairs; petals 
lanceolate, acuminate, a third longer than the sepals; staminodia 
oblong-obovate, rounded at apex, rather shorter than the petals; 
style tomentose at base or glabrous. Fruit subglobose, ellipsoidal 
or obovoid, 7-9 mm. in diameter. 
A large tree with slender, red-brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent 
branchlets. Winter-buds ovate, acute, glabrous or rarely sacs a 5-6 mm. 
ng. 
NortH CaRoLina.—Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover cei, Ww. W. 
Ashe (no. 261); Wilmington, New Hanover County, T. G. Harbison, June aI, 
1915, wae 2, 1916 (nos. 6, 8, 11, 12). 
