1918] SARGENT—TILIA 505 
at apex, finely dentate with apiculate gland-tipped teeth; when they 
unfold pubescent on the upper surface with caducous fascicled 
hairs, and at maturity dark green and glabrous on the upper sur- 
face, covered below with thick, firmly attached, white or on upper 
branches often brownish tomentum, and usually furnished with small 
axillary tufts of rusty brown hairs, 8-13 cm. long and 6-10 cm. wide; 
petioles slender, glabrous, 3.5-4 cm. in length. Flowers 6-7 mm. 
long on pedicels pubescent with fascicled hairs, in wide mostly 
10-20-flowered pubescent corymbs; peduncle glabrous, the free 
portion 2-4 cm. in length, the bract narrowed and rounded at 
apex, unsymmetrically cuneate at base, pubescent on the upper, 
tomentose on the lower surface when it first appears, becoming 
glabrous, nearly sessile or raised on a stalk up to 1 cm. in length; 
sepals acuminate, pale-pubescent on the outer surface, villose 
on the inner surface and furnished at base with a tuft of long white 
hairs; petals lanceolate, acuminate, a third longer than the sepals; 
staminodia oblong-ovate, acute, sometimes notched at apex; style 
villose at base with long white hairs. Fruit ellipsoidal, apiculate 
at apex, covered with rusty brown tomentum, 7-10 mm. long. 
A large tree, with slender, glabrous, reddish or yellowish brown branchlets 
and oblong-ovate, slightly flattened, glabrous winter-buds 5-7 mm. in length, 
the outer scales slightly ciliate at apex. 
Nortu Carortna.—Falls of the Yadkin River, Stanley County, J. K. 
Small, August 1892; near Newbern, Craven County, 7. G. Harbison, June 5, 
1918 (nos. 42, 44 with styles villose to the middle). 
SoutH Carortina.—Walhalla, Oconee County, 7. G. Harbison, June 4 and 
22,1915, March and October 11, 1917; Russell, Oconee County, T. G. Harbison, 
May 5 and June 29, 1917 (nos. 3, 4), July 7, 1917 (nos. 18, 20). 
Grorc1a.—Cornelia, Habersham County, T. G. Harbison, July 7, 1917 
(nos. 18, 20); Toccoa, Stevens County, 7. G. Harbison, June 15, 1918 (no. 9); 
banks of Flint River, Albany, Dougherty County, J. K. Small, May 24-28, 
1806, T. G. Harbison, June 25, 1915 (no. 3); near Zluguenin, Sumter County, 
R. M. Harper, July 11, 1901 (no. 1049); banks of Savannah River, Germain’s 
Island, Columbia County, R. M. Harper, June 1, 1902 (no. 1302). 
Fiorma.—Tallahassee, Leon County, 7. G. Harbison, June and Septem- 
ber 1915 (nos. 1-6); River Junction, Gadsden County, June rors and 1916 
(nos. 1, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 30, 34, 36, 37, 38, 62); Rotk 
Cave, Jackson County, R. M. Harper, April 28, 1910; near Marianna, Jackson 
County, T. G. Harbison, September 18, 1916 (nos. 2, 4), May 26, 1917 
(no. 21). 
