Handbook of Ttikks of Tiri'^ Xoi!tiieen States auti Canada. 449 



inner bark snd houey and perfume from tbeir flowers. About twenty speries are known five 

 or six of whifb are found Rmong the trees of easiern North America. 



Leave.'; decidnnns. long-petiolate. mainly cordate and oblique at bas", acute or acnniin.'.'te. 

 serrate. Flitirers \i',s.\\t yellow, very fragrar't and nectariferous in pedunculate axilhi?'y <:',-iiies', 

 eai-li peduncle furnished v/itii a large pale iloral membranous bract to which it is lal'iiati. f(.i' 

 about half its len;;th ; sepals 5: petals 5, imbricated in the bud, yellowish white stamens in ."i 

 clusters eacli cluster (in the American species) united with a petal-like scale opposite each 

 petal, the filament filiform and forked at the apex, each fork bearing an extrorse half-anther; 

 ovary o-celled. each cell containing 2 anatiopous ovules; style columnar and with .1 spreading 

 stigmaric lobes. Fniit nut-like, dry, woody, J-celled and containinf; 1-2 amphitropous seeds; 

 cotyledons palniately 5-lobed. 



The name is the classi'-al name of the European Linden. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



a Leaves green and glabrous beneath T. AmeTicamia. 



a' Leaves whitish and 



Tomentose beneath T. lietep.jphyUa. 



Stellate pubescent wiOi tufts in tlic axils of the veins beneath T. Michaasil. 



For upecies tee pp. fS.~}0-S.'>l and tlie follou-ing: 



■'iVuiTE Ba.'sswood. T. hcterophylla Yent. A large tree ranging from southern N. Y. to 

 Fla., particularly of the Alleghany Mts. Lrare.s ovate-oblong to oval, .5-10 in. long, cordate 

 or truncati' and oblique at base, abruptly acuminate, serrate, at maturity thin, dark green 

 above, whiiish and tomentose beneath; branchlets glabrous. Flowers with pedunculate bract 

 4-.5 in. long, decurrent nearly to base. Fritit oblong to subglobose, about '/,, in. long, rusty- 

 tomentose. 



MlC'iTAUX Basswood, T. Michau.rii Nutt. Similar to the above and often confounded wilh 

 it and witli j". piiiescens Ait. of the southern coast region. Its distribution, apparently ex- 

 tending fro'ii the yicinity of Montreal, Cajnada, to the Gulf states, is not well understood, 

 Leares broad-ovate, mostly cordate and very oblique st base, short acuminate or acute at apex, 

 serrate, af maturity ratl»er firm, glabrous' dark green above, whitish stellate pubescent with 

 tufts of hairs in -be asiis of the veins beneath. Flowers floral bract pedunculate, spatulato- 

 obovate, decurrent to within %-% in. of the b«:e of the peduncle. Fruit subglobose, about 

 1/3 in. in d;,3 meter, hoary-tomentose. 



TEA FAMILY. THEACE.^ DC. 



Trees and shrubs of about one hundred and sixty species, grouped in .sixteen or seventeen 

 genera, and confined chiefly to the tropics of the New World and southern and eastern Asia. 

 The most important genus is GameUia, yielding the tea of commerce and shrubs with beautiful 

 flowers. 



Leave.-! alternate without stipules. Flowers showy, regular, perfect; sepals and petals .^, 

 imbricated in the bud, bvpogenous; stamens nuTnerous with 2 longitudinally dehiscent cells; 

 ovary mostly .H-." called and stigma 3-5-lcbed. Fruit a woody 3T)-celled caspule ; seed with 

 large cotyledons and no .nlbumen. 



THE LOBLOLLY BAY, ETC. Genus GORDONIA(L) Ell. 



Trees and shrcbs of about a dozen species mainly of southeastern Asia. One species is 

 reiiresented in the flora of southeastern United States. Another tree, the Frnnklinio, by some 

 considered a species of this genus, is more properly consi.'.ered the type of another genus of 



that name. 



L-are'! alternate evergreen, coriaceous. Flowers long-stalked and solitary inthe axils of 

 the l^avJvs'- sepals unequ,<il, silky, concave, rounded and persistent; petals whue, obovate, 

 si"h i? nn ted at base concave; stamens numerous with short filaments inserted on fleshy 



For species see pp. 3.52-S.'i!l. 



GISrSEWG FAMILY. ARALIACE^ Vent. 



Tre-,3. chrubs e.nd berlis of .-iboot four hundred fifty species, grouped in thirty-two genera, 

 anti widely distributed throughout troidcal and to n lesser extent temperate regions. 

 4 siM' le ."rborpscent species is native to ihe flora of eastern United States. 



