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altitude than the others, is typical of the species, with leaves very oblique at 
base and up to 17 cm. long on the flowering branches; the petioles vary from 
6 to 8cm.in length. The pedunculate bract is1t.5 cm.inlength. At this low 
altitude the trees naturally bloom earlier than at Highlands. T. monticola, 
with its large leaves snowy white on the lower surface and drooping gracefully 
on their long petioles, and its large flowers, is the showiest of the American 
lindens 
15. Tilia georgiana, n. sp.—Tilia pubescens Ventenat, Ann. 
Hist. Nat. 2:62. 1800; Mém. Acad. Sci. 4:10. #. 3 (not Aiton). 
1802.—Leaves ovate, slightly unsymmetrical at base and usually 
cordate on lateral branches and often oblique or truncate on leading 
branches, abruptly short-pointed at apex, and finely dentate, with 
glandular teeth pointing forward; when they unfold deeply tinged 
with red, covered above by fascicled hairs and tomentose below; 
when the flowers open dark yellow-green, dull and scabrate above 
and covered below with a thick coat of tomentum, pale on those 
of the lower branches and tinged with brown on those from the top 
of the tree, conspicuously reticulate-venulose, and at maturity thick, 
dull yellow-green, pubescent or glabrous above, rusty or pale tomen- 
tose below, sometimes becoming nearly glabrous in the autumn, 
6-10 cm. long and 5-8 cm. wide; petioles slender, tomentose, 
2-4 cm. in length. Flowers 6-7 mm. long, on slender pubescent 
pedicels in compact, slender-branched, pubescent, mostly 10-15- 
flowered corymbs; peduncle slender, pubescent on the lower, nearly 
glabrous on the upper, surface, the free portion 2. 5-3 cm. in length; 
sepals ovate, acuminate, coated on the outer surface with pale 
pubescence and on the inner surface with pale hairs longest and 
most abundant at the base, not more than one-half the length of 
the lanceolate acuminate, narrow petals; staminodia oblong- 
obovate to spathulate, acute, about two-thirds as long as the petals; 
style glabrous or furnished with a few hairs at the very base. Fruit 
on pubescent pedicels, depressed-globose, occasionally slightly 
grooved and ridged, covered with thick rusty tomentum, 5-6 mm. 
in diameter. 
A tree with slender branchlets thickly coated during their first season with 
- pale tomentum, and dark red-brown or brown and puberulous in their second 
year. Winter-buds covered with rusty brown pubescence, 6-7 mm. long. 
Flowers the middle of June. Fruit ripens early in September. 3 
