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as might be expected in the case of a tree from the southern states cultivated 
in England. There is no other linden in the South Carolina region which at 
all agrees with MILLErR’s specimen, and his name can properly be taken up for 
thistree. T.caroliniana has usually been considered a synonym of T. americana 
Linnaeus, and T. pubescens has been adopted for one of the southern coast 
species. This name, however, except as a synonym of T. caroliniana, must 
now disappear. 
The leaves of the specimens collected west of the Mississippi River which 
are here referred to T. caroliniana are certainly not thinner than those from 
the Carolina coast region, and I can find no characters by which the eastern 
and western trees can be distinguished. As here understood the range of 
T. caroliniana is remarkable, as there is no evidence that it occurs between 
the coast of Georgia and western Louisiana. 
TILIA CAROLINIANA var. rhoophila, n. var.—Tilia pubescens 
Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1:240 (insomuch as relates to Texas). 
1842; Tilia pubescens Sargent, Silva N. Am. 1:55 (insomuch as 
relates to Louisiana and Texas). 1891, and later authors; T#lia 
pubescens var. a Aitonii, V. Engler, Monog. Tilia, 128 (insomuch 
as relates to Texas specimens). 1909.—Differing from the type in 
its pubescent branchlets and winter-buds, its usually larger leaves, 
and in its tomentose corymbs of more numerous flowers. Leaves 
broadly ovate, oblique and truncate or cordate at base, abruptly 
short-pointed and acuminate at apex, coarsely serrate with broad 
apiculate teeth pointing forward, dark green and lustrous on the 
upper surface, pale and thickly covered on the lower surface with 
persistent white or brownish pubescence, 10-12 cm. long and 7-12 
cm. wide, with slender midribs and primary veins pubescent on the 
lower side and small i axillary tufts of pale hairs; petioles 
stout, thickly coated with pubescence, 2.5—4 cm. in length; on 
vigorous shoots leaves often 16 cm. long and 14 cm. wide, and 
occasionally 24 cm. long and 18 cm. wide. Flowers 5—6 mm. long, on 
short, hoary tomentose pedicels in wide, thin-branched, pubescent, 
many-flowered (sometimes 50) corymbs; peduncle thickly covered 
with fascicled hairs, the free portion 3.5-5 cm. long, the bract 
oblong, unequally rounded at base, rounded at apex, glabrous on 
the upper, pubescent on the lower surface, 1.5—2 cm. wide, usually 
shorter than the peduncle; sepals acuminate, coated on the outer 
surface with pale or slightly rusty pubescence, villose and furnished 
at base on the inner surface with tufts of long hairs; petals lan- 
