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branches are also hispid, and the bark of the trunk rougher. 

 The cymes are three-flowered, the fruit downy, turbinate, 

 with five prominent angles. It attains a size equal to that 

 of Til. Europcea, and is, perhaps, still more imposing in 

 effect from the massive character of its foliage ; this va- 

 riety, according to Sir J. E. Smith, prevails in the south- 

 ern parts of Europe. 



The red-twigged plants of the nurseries appear to be 

 merely subvarieties of the foregoing kinds, all of which 

 are occasionally found with the young shoots of a bright 

 red colour, and the same may be said of those with twigs 

 of a golden hue. The Out-leaved Lime-tree, T. E. laciniata, 

 with deeply jagged and twisted leaves, is, in our estima- 

 tion, not worth cultivating, as it is always unsightly and 

 unhealthy in appearance, and rarely attains a height of 

 more than thirty feet. 



