COMMON, OR EUROPEAN LIME-TREE. 9 



pillars of many Lepidopterous insects, some of which are 

 confined to it, while others are occasionally found upon 

 other trees ; amongst them we may enumerate the Smerin- 

 thus tilite (Lime Hawk moth), Pygmra bucephala, Stauro- 

 pusfagi, Lophopteryx camelina, Petasia cassinea, Endromis 

 versicolor (Glory of Kent), Eriogaster lanestris, Hypogymna 

 dispar, Leucoma vau nigra, Orthosia stabilis, Xylina petri- 

 ficata, Miselia Aprilina, Acronycta Psi, Cosmia trapezina, 

 Xantliia citrago, and of the Geometridete, Prosapiaria de- 

 foliaria, Biston Prodromaria, Biston hirtarius, Geometra 

 tiliaria, Geometra angularia, Ourapteryx sambucaria, and 

 Hipparchus papilionarius. It is also infested by Aphis 

 tilice, and various species of the Psocida and Circopidce. 



Besides the Common Lime-tree in its ordinary form, the 

 following are the principal varieties, or races, generally 

 cultivated ; 1st. The Small-leaved European Lime, T. E. 

 microphylla, Loud, (the Til. micropltylla of Ventenat, Til. 

 parvi/olia, Smith), distinguished from the Til. Europaa, 

 by its smaller leaves and slender foot-stalks. This appears 

 to be the male linden-tree of Gerard, the wood of which 

 he states to be harder, more knotty, and yellower in 

 colour than the common kind, and this variety, as we 

 have previously observed, is more likely to be indigenous 

 than any other, being the form or appearance we should 

 expect it to exhibit in a climate like our own. Upon the 

 Continent it prevails in the rocky parts of Sweden, and 

 the hilly districts of the north of Germany : it flowers 

 later than the other kinds, but is equally fragrant, though 

 the flowers are smaller. 2nd. The Broad-leafed European 

 Lime-tree, Til. Eu. platyphylla, Loud. (Til. platyphylla, 

 Scop., Til. grandifolia, Smith) ; the leaves of this variety 

 are downy beneath, with woolly tufts at the origin of the 

 veins, and larger than those of Til. Europaa. The young 



