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longer lucceflSon oF fragrance from their blofToms might be 

 obtained. 



Sect. 2. Flowers tv'ith fcaly nedarles. American fpc- 

 cies. 



4. T. americana. Broad-leaved Lime-tree. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 733. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 3. (T. glabra ; Vcntcn. 

 n. 3. " Mem. de I'Inftit. v. 4. 9. t. 2." Purdi n. i. 

 T. canadenfis ; Michaux Boreal. -Amcr. v. i. 306.) — Nec- 

 taries prefent. Leaves orbicular-heartfliaped, abrupt with 

 a point, (harply fcrrated ; their veins minutely hairy be- 

 neath. Petals abrupt, crenate. Capfulc ovate, fomewhat 

 ribbed. In the woods of Canada and the northern United 

 States, and on the mountains, as far as South Carolina, 

 flowering in May and June. It is known by the name of 

 Lime-tree or Line-tree, Bafs-wood, or Spoon-wood, and is 

 both ufeful and ornamental. Purjh. Kalm firft made tlic 

 plant known to Linnxus, and it was fuppofed by them to 

 be the only American fpecies of Til'ia. T\\(:Jlem is faid to be 

 eighty feet high. The branches are brown, fmooth. Leaves 

 larger than any of our European fpecies, and of a more 

 orbicular or rather elliptical form, abrupt rather than heart- 

 fhaped at their bafe ; of a fine green above, turning red in 

 •lutumn ; much paler beneath ; finely veined and fmooth on 

 both fides, except that all their veins are minutely hairy 

 (not fringed \\\ieT.coraUlna) beneath, and even the fmaller 

 ones, as well as the larger, are furnifhed with little axillary 

 liairy tufts. Flowers corymbofe ; their common ftalk about 

 twice the length of the footftalks. Petals, according to 

 Ventenat, abrupt, and toothed towards the end. We have 

 not examined the flowers. 



5. T. laxijlora. Panicled Lime-tree. Michaux Boreal.- 

 Amer. v. i. 306. Pnrfli n. 2. — " Leaves heart-ihaped, 

 taper-pointed, Iparingly toothed, membranous, fmooth. 

 Panicles loofe. Petals emarginate, fhorter than the ftyle. 

 Capfule globofe." — Near the fea-coaft, from Maryland to 

 Georgia, flowering in May and June. A very diftindl 

 tpecies, though generally confounded with the foregoing 

 one. Pi'rjb. 



6. T. pubefcens. Hoary Lime-tree. Ait. n. 4. Willd. 

 n. 3. Venten. n. 4. " Mem. de I'Inft. v. 4. 10. t. 3." 



Purfh n. 3 Neftaries prefent. Leaves heart-fhaped, 



pointed, coarfely ferrated ; abrupt and unequal at the bafe ; 

 downy beneath. Panicles forked, compound. Petals 

 ;icute; — In clofe copfes, and on the banks of rivers, from 

 Virginia to Georgia, flowering from May to July. Purjli. 

 Its thinner-leaved variety was long ago brought from Loui- 

 llana to the Paris gardens, and JufGeu gave it the name of 

 :iniltiflora, which is very apt, but has never been publiflied 

 till lately. Catefby is reported to have introduced this fpe- 

 cies into England before the year 1726. If our memory 

 does not deceive us, it is to be met with at Bulftrode, and 

 in other old plantations, and the flowers are more highly 

 fragrant than any others of the genus. Its growth is faid 

 not to be fo lofty as that of T. americana. The leaves are 

 fmaller, obliquely heart-fhaped, with very broad and pointed 

 icrratures ; their under fide extremely foft to the touch, but 

 not white, though paler than the upper, and fomewhat 

 hoary. There are fcarcely any axillary tufts of hair to the 

 veins, except on the older denudated leaves. Flower-Jlalks 

 twice as long as \he footjlalis, branched at the top into a 

 forked, fpreading, downy panicle of numerous f.owers. 

 The petals are rather pointed, as Ventenat defcribes them ; 

 and not emarginate, as in his and Purfh's fpecific definition. 

 We readily concur with thcfe authors, that the Louifiana 

 Kee, called multijlora, is a mere variety, and but a flight 

 one. Our defcription elf the injlnrejcence and fotuers is 

 taken from this variety. It is hardly necelFary to mention 



that all thefe American Lime-trees bear the fame peculiar 

 fort of bradea as thofe of Europe. 



7. T. alba. Wliite Lime-tree. Ait. n. 5. Willd. n. 4. 

 " Waldil. et Kitaib. Hung, t.3." Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 

 V. 3. 18. t. 283. (T. rotundifolia ; Venten. n. 5. "Mem. 

 de I'Infl. V. 4. 12. t. 4.") — Neftaries prefent. Leaves 

 deeply heart-fliaped, obfcurely lobed, (harply ferrated ; 



downy and white beneath Native of woods in Hungary. 



Willdenow. Found by Bruguiere and Olivier near Conflan- 

 tinople. Ventenat. It was erroneoufly reported by our gar- 

 deners to come from America, as every new plant, at one 

 period, was fuppofed to do. More recently, every novelty 

 has been attributed to Botany Bay. — This is a hardy tree in 

 England, but does not flourifh fo well as any of the pre- 

 ceding. The deep, and more even, heai-t-fhaped figure of 

 the leaves, and their fnow-white under furface, readily cha- 

 rafterize this fpecies. Its light-yellow, cymofe or panicled 



Jlowers are faid to have the fcent of a jonquil!. 



8. T. heterophylla. Various-leaved Lime-tree. Venten. 

 n. 6. " Mem. de I'Inft. v. 4. 16. t. 5." Purfh n. 4. (T. 

 alba; Sm. Inf. of Georgia, v. i. 21. t. 11 ?) — " Leaves 

 ovate, (harply ferrated ; white and downy beneath ; either 

 heart-fhaped, or obhqutly, or equally, abrupt, at the bafe. 

 Capfulc globofe, obfcurely ribbed." — On the banks of the 

 Ohio and Miififlippi, flowering in June. A very hand- 

 fome and defirable ornamental tree. Purjli. Ventenat fays 

 it is diftinguifhed from the laft by many charafters. The 

 young branches, and buds, are fmooth, of a purple colour 

 inclining to black. Leaves delicately ferrated, pointed, with 

 tufts of reddifh axillary hairs to the veins. Flower-Jlalhs 

 almoft as long as the leaves, being thrice the length of T. 

 alba. We have feen no fpeeimen of this fpecies, but it has 

 probably been introduced into the gardens by fome of our 

 colleftors from America. It is extremely likely to be the 

 Warhew of Mr. Abbot, in our Infefts of Georgia, t. II.; 

 which from the above-mentioned error of the gardeners re- 

 fpefting T. alba, we fuppofed could be no other than that 

 fpecies, now known not to grow in America. The War- 

 hew is faid to be very like the European Lime-tree, except 

 being always a low bufh or fiirub. Mr. Abbot's figure 

 anfwers fo well to Ventenat's and Purfli's definitions, as to 

 leave fcarcely a doubt on the fubjeft, except only that the 

 latter fpeaks of T. heterophylla as an ornamental tree. It 

 may attain a greater fize in one part of the country than in 

 another. 



We feel much regret in rejcfting our late efteemed cor- 

 refpondent M. Ventenat's fuppofed improvements in the 

 nomenclature of the fpecies of Tilia. But befides their ap- 

 pearing to us uniformly for the worfe, as ufual in all fuch 

 alterations that ever came in our way, we greatly prefer efta- 

 blifhed names ; which though occafionally erroneous or am- 

 biguous, have generally acquired aflbciations that compen- 

 fate for any defefts. 



Tilia, in Gardening, contains plants of the ornamen- 

 tal tree kind, among which the fpecies moftly cultivated are, 

 the European lime-tree (T. europaea) ; the broad-leaved 

 American lime-tree (T. americana) ; the pubefcent Ca- 

 rolina lime-tree (T. pubefcens) ; and the white lime-tree 

 (T. alba). 



The firft fort, though httle ufed, is a handfome tree, hav- 

 ing a fmooth taper ftraight trunk, and the branches forming 

 a beautiful cone. The foliage alfo is fmooth and elegant : 

 it grows to a very large fize, and affords good (hade : it 

 makes a fine detached objeft in parks and open lawns, 

 jjlnnted fingly : the branches are fo tough as feldom to be 

 broken by the winds, and the (lowers have a delightful fra- 

 grance : the wood is foft, but capable of being turned into 



light . 



