338 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
the Swedish Jin, meaning the Lime or Linden 
Tree. 
Of the Lime leaf we have already spoken, but 
it remains to discuss its blossom. Those who at 
midsummer have looked up into its glorious head of 
foliage cannot have failed to see the delicate clusters 
of golden green balls suspended from their slender 
verdant stems, branching stems from the summit 
of a main stem forming what botanists call a cyme, 
somewhat like the arrangement of flowers in the 
familiar Elder-Tree. But the Lime blossoms do not 
grow with the density of the Elder flowers. They 
are numerous collectively by the great number of 
theircymes. But each cyme has usually no more 
than seven or eight little green balls depending— 
for that is their usual habit—from seven or eight 
short stems joined at their bases to the one sup- 
porting stem. And this main stem, in its turn, 
depends from the centre of a bract, which in the 
Lime is a long, thin, narrow, and very pale green 
leaf, roughly suggesting the ‘keys’ of other Trees. 
It is, in fact, a kind of abnormal leaf which springs 
from the awil—or angle made by a leaf stalk with 
the twig on which the leaf stalk is fastened—of 
