2 TILIACE.E. 



Specific Characters. — Nectaries wanting, leaves smooth, except a woolly tuft 

 at the origin of the veins beneath, cordate, acuminate and serrated, twice the 

 length of the footstalks. Cymes many-flowered, the capsule coriaceous and downy. 



If we possess no evidence sufficiently conclusive to prove 

 that the Lime-tree in any of its forms is truly indigenous 

 in Britain, we have at least enough to show that it has long- 

 been naturalized, and that its introduction must have taken 

 place at a very distant period ; for upon referring to the 

 earlier authors, such as Turner, Gerard, &c, we find it 

 (in the form of T. E. micropliylla) spoken of as a well- 

 known and, in their estimation, apparently as a native tree. 

 Evelyn also appears to have viewed the T. E. micropliylla 

 in this light, for speaking of the Til. Europcea of authors, 

 he says, " We send, commonly, for this tree, into Flan- 

 ders and Holland, which, indeed, (that is T. Europaa,) 

 grows not so naturally wild with us, to our expensive cost, 

 while our woods do, in some places, spontaneously produce 



