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96. Tilia europe‘a. 
Spec. Char., §c. Petals without scales. Leaves cordate, acuminated, ser- 
rated, smooth, except a tuft of hair at the origin of the veins beneath, twice 
the length of the petioles. Cymes many-flowered. Fruit coriaceous, 
downy. (Dons Mill.) A large deciduous tree. Europe, and Britain in 
some aboriginal woods. Height 60 ft. to 90 ft. Flowers yellowish white ; 
August and September. Fruit yellow; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 
yellow, or yellowish brown. Naked voung wood reddish, or yellowish 
brown. - 
Varieties. The extensive distribution and long cultivation of this tree in 
Europe have given rise to the following varieties, or races, described by 
most botanists as species : — 
A. Varieties differing m respect to Foliage. 
* T.e.1 parvifolia. T. microphylla Vent., Willd., Dec., and G. Don; T. 
e. var. y L.; T. ulmifolia Scop.; T. sylvéstris Desf; T. parvifolia 
Ehrh., Hayne Dend.; T. cordata Mill.; Tilleul & petites Feuilles 
Fr.; kleinblattrige Linde, or Winterlinde, Ger. (Willd. Holzart, 
t. 106.; Engl. Bot., t. 1705.; and our jig. 97.) ivi 
— Leaves cordate, roundish, acuminated, sharply 
serrated ; smooth above, glaucous and bearded 
beneath on the axils of the veins, as well as 
in hairy blotches. Fruit rather globose, hardly 
ribbed, very thin and brittle. Native of Europe, 
in sub-mountainous woods ; in England, frequent 
in Essex and Sussex. This variety is distinguish- 
able, at first sight, from all the others, by the 
smallness of its leaves, which are only about 2 in, 
broad, and sometimes scarcely longer than their 
slender footstalks. The flowers are also much 97 7 microphylla. 
smaller than in any of the other varieties ; they expand later; and 
they are very fragrant, having a scent like those of the honeysuckle 
There was, in 1834, a subvariety of this in the garden of the Hort 
Soc., under the name of 7". parvifolia glatica. 
¥ Tie. 2 grandifolia. T. platyphylla Scop.; T. cordifolia Bess. ; T 
europea Desf.; T. grandifolia Ehrh. and Smith; broad-leaved 
downy Lime Tree; Tilleul a grandes Feuilles, or Tilleul de Hol- 
