1918] SARGENT—TILIA 503 
maturity thick, bright green, smooth and lustrous on the upper 
surface, pale and covered on the lower surface with a thick floccose, 
easily detached pubescence of fascicled hairs, pale on those of 
lower leaves and often rufous on those of upper branches, 10-15 cm. 
long and 8-12 cm. wide, the slender midribs and veins covered 
below with straight hairs mixed with fascicled hairs, and small 
conspicuous axillary tufts; petioles covered when they first appear 
with straight hairs mixed with fascicled hairs, soon glabrous, usually 
3-4 cm. in length, those of the leaves of weak branchlets very slender 
and often 5-6 cm. long. Flowers 5-6 mm. long, on stout villose 
pedicels, in long-branched, mostly 1o~15-flowered corymbs more 
or less thickly covered with straight white hairs; peduncle 
covered with long white hairs, the free portion 2.5-—3 cm. in 
length, the bract nearly sessile, rounded and unsymmetrical or 
acute at base, rounded or acute at apex, the midrib more or less 
thickly covered on the lower side with straight hairs, otherwise 
glabrous, 2-5 cm. wide; sepals narrow, acute, pubescent on the 
outer surface, villose on the inner surface, about one-third as long 
as the lanceolate acuminate petals; staminodia spathulate, rounded 
and often lobed at apex, about as long as the sepals; style slightly 
villose at base. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, covered with 
rusty tomentum, about 1 cm. in diameter. 
A tree sometimes 20 m. high with a trunk 30-60 cm. in diameter, stout 
branches forming a broad round-topped weitte and stout neloheve branchlets 
sometimes glabrous in early summer less thickly 
during their first and second seasons with long straight hairs. 
SoutH Carotmna.—Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County; upland woods, 
Anderson County, T. G. Harbison, May 21, 1918; rich wooded slopes near 
the Savannah River, three miles below Augusta, T. G. Harbison, June 17 and 
August 23, 1916 (no. 8 type), June 17, 1917 (no. 9); Beach Island, a rich wooded 
slope rising from the north bank of the Savannah River a few miles below 
Augusta, R. C. Berckmans, June 12, 1914. 
Grorci1a.—Shell Bluff on Savannah River 30 miles below Augusta, Rich- 
mond County, C. S. Sargent, April 6, 1914; steep rocky bluff at the Locks 
above Augusta, T. G. Harbison, May 13, 1913 (nos. 1162, 1163), May 27 and 
October 6, r914 (no. 9), April 6, 1916 (no. 6), August 23, 1916 (nos. 12, 13). 
Brickyard near the Berckman’s Nursery west of Augusta, October 5, 1914 
(no. 7), August 23, 1916 (no. 16), June 29, 1917 (no. 16), May 31, 1918 it 31), 
May 30, 1918 (nos. 18, 20, 21 type). 
