THE LINDEN. 
Tilia europe’a L- 
SEVERAL forms of the Linden were lumped together 
by Linneeus under the scientific name Tilia europea. 
Though these have been so extensively planted in 
England during the last two centuries as to be 
familiar to most people, only two of them, the 
Small-leaved Linden, 7. corda'ta Mill, and the Large- 
leaved Linden, 7. platyphyl'los Scop, have any 
claim to be truly indigenous. The latter is confined 
to rocky woods in West Yorkshire, Radnorshire, and 
Herefordshire. : 
The genus, being confined to Northern Asia, 
America, and parts of Europe, would probably not 
have been known to the primitive Aryan race in 
their ancestral home in the uplands of Central Asia, 
so that their descendants have no common name for 
it. It was the Phi'lyra of the Greeks, whilst the 
Romans named it Tilia; and the Teuton, perhaps 
aware of the tough “bast,” or inner bark, rémind- 
ing him of the “lin,” or “lint ’—z.e. the Flax (ZLi’num) 
—named it also “linta,’ “linde,” or “lind.” Of 
these three names, the first is Old German, and 
the second is Modern, whilst the third is common to 
Early English, Swedish, and Icelandic. The modern 
name, Lime, is merely a corruption of Line, and 
belongs properly to the Sweet Lime, a species of 
Citrus, closely related to the Lemon. 
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