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Hort. Ketn. ; T. europa^a /3 rdbra Sibthorp; T. europae^a y Smith's Flor. Brit., 571. : 

 T. grandifblia p Smith's Eng. Flora, 3. 19. 



Description. This variety is distinguished by the redness of its 

 young branches, and it may be properly considered as a subvariety 

 of all the above races or kinds. In Sweden, where lime woods 

 extend over the low part of the country for many miles together, 

 the common lime tree is met with, in some places, perhaps for a 

 mile together, with the twigs bright red, yellow in others, and in 

 others quite green. In the park at Shardeloes, near Amersham, in 

 Buckinghamshire, may be seen large lime trees, all apparently of 

 the commonest kind (T. europae r a), some with yellow, others with 

 red, and others with brown or green wood. In the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society there is one variety with small leaves 

 and bright yellow wood ; and another, with the large rough leaves 

 of T. e. platyphylla, and bright yellow wood. Our conclusion from 

 these, and other facts that have come before us, is, that there is a 

 red-twigged and yellow-twigged variety or subvariety of T. eu- 

 ropae v a, of T. e. microphylla, and of T. e. platyphylla ; and that 

 T. rubra Dec. can be nothing more than a variety of T. e. platy- 

 phylla. 



3£ T. e. 5 laciniata. The CH^-leaved European Lime Tree. 



Synonymes. T. platyphylla laciniata Hort. 

 Engravings. Our plate : n Vol. II. 



Description. The leaves are smaller than those of the common 

 species, and deeply and irregularly cut and twisted, scarcely two on 

 the tree being alike. This variety is seldom seen of a large size ; as 

 might be expected from the diminished power of the leaves, in 

 consequence of their diminished surface. We have never heard of 

 its attaining a greater height than 30 ft. 

 2 T. e. 6 a urea. The golden-twigged European Lime Tree. — Differing 

 from the species in the yellowness of its twigs ; and, apparently, 

 not so vigorous in its growth as any of the other varieties, except 

 T. e. laciniata. (See our plate in Vol. II.) 

 It T. e. 7 p. aurea. The golden-twigged broad-leaved European Lime 

 Tree. — This differs from the common broad-leaved lime in no other 

 respect than in the yellow colour of its twigs. It is, in winter, a 

 very distinct and very handsome variety, and may be procured in 

 some of the London nurseries. There is a small tree in the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. 

 It T. e. 8 dasystyla. The hairy-styled European Lime Tree. T. da- 

 systyla Steven. — This is described as having petals without scales ; 

 leaves smooth, somewhat hairy at the base beneath ; axils of veins 

 bearded; style tomentose. It is found on the south-west coast 

 of Tauria, at the base of the mountain Castel Dagle, where there 

 is one tree near the public road. Steven considers it as satis- 

 factorily distinct in the form of its fruit, and especially in the 

 hairiness of its style. To us it appears that this variety bears the 

 same relation to the species that Crataegus Oxyacantha eriocarpa 

 does to the species. 

 Other Varieties. There is a variety with variegated leaves, but it is such 

 a ragged ill-looking plant that we deem it altogether unworthy of culture. 

 There are some names of varieties in nurserymen's catalogues, which we 

 have not thought worth a detailed notice; the slightest deviation being 

 often eagerly seized on for the sake of producing something new. In the 

 Bollwyller Catalogue for 1833, we have T. aspleniifolia nova, which, we pre- 

 sume, is a subvariety of T. europaa s a laciniata ; and M. Baumann informs us 

 that they have lately discovered a new variety of T. e. aurea in a forest in 

 their neighbourhood. In the Botanic Garden of Antwerp, there is a plant 



