3 12 } POLY ANURIA MOXOGYNIA 



acuminate glandular-ciliate bracts at base. Calyx smoothish; segments lance* 

 olate, acuminate, villose within, glandular-ciliate, terminating in short foliaceous 

 appendages, 2 or 3 of the outer segments often laciniate. Petals pale red, half an 

 inch to 3 quarters in length, and about hall an inch wide, cuneateobovatc, eniar- 

 ginate. Fruit ovoid, oval, or obovoid, one half to 2 thirds of an inch long, mostly 

 smooth, reddish orange-color when mature. 



Hab. Sandy banks ; along road-sides. &c. not unfrequent. FL June. FY* Sept. Oct. 

 Obs. This foreign species, so generally admired for the fragranco of its leaves, 

 is often cultivated about houses ; and has long since become naturalized, in many 

 localities. Eight or ten additional sprcies have been enumerated in the U. States,— 

 though r think it probable tome of iham are scarcely more than varieties. 



CLASS XII- POLYANDRIA. 



Order It 'Jl ostomy uia. 



OVABY MOSTLY SUPEltlOH. 



243. TILIA. /,. JVutt, Gen. 454. 



[A name of obscure and uncertain derivation.] 



Calyx 5-pai ted, deciduous. Petals 5, nuked within, or each augmen- 

 ted with an internal scale, or accessory petal. Filaments distinct, or 

 somewhat polyadelphous. Ovarii globose, villose, 5-celled ; cells 2-secd- 

 ed. J\*ut coriaceous, or bony, by abortion 1-celled, 1 or 2-scedcd. 



Trees : leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, obliquely subcordate ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, Bolitary, cymose, each adnate at base to the miuVrib of a membranous bract 

 which is free at summit. Nat. Ord. 29. Lindl. Tiliacbjb. 



I. T. glabra, Vent. Leaves obliquely cordate, or truncate at base, 

 abruptly acuminate, sharply serrate, subcoriaecous, smooth ; flowers in 

 pendulous cymes ; petals truncate and crenate at apex, with each an 

 internal accessory petal attached to the filaments at base ; style as long 

 as the petals ; fruit roundish-oval. Beck, Bot. p. 59. 



T, amcricana. Marsh. Arbust. p. 153. Ifiltd. Sp. 2. p. 1168, Peri. 

 Syn. 2./;. 66. Ait. Kew. 3. /;. 299, Mr. f. Sylva. 3. p. 102. (Icox, 

 tab. 131), Bigel. Bost. p. 214. IAndl. £ncy.p. 466. 



T. canadensis. Mx.Am. I. p. 30G. AUo 9 Pers. I. c. 



Smooth Tilia, Vulgd — Linden, or Linn. Bass wood. White wood. 



Stem 40 to 60 or 80 feet high, and sometimes 3 feet or more in diameter, covered 

 with a thick light-colored cinereous bark, the wood soft and white. Leaves 3 to 5 

 inches long, and nearly as wide as long, somewhat orbicular in their <'utline, 

 acuminate, produced on one side at base, cordate, or often obliquely truncate, 

 smooth on both sides, with small tufts of russet pubescence in the axils of the 

 nerves beneath, serratures with slender acuminati.ms ; petioles 1 to 2 inches long, 

 •moolh. Peduncles 3 to 5 inches long, smooth, trichotomously cymoso at apexi 

 pendulous, somewhat geniculate near the middle, and from thence to the base 

 adnate to the lower half of a light-colored linear-oblong membranous bract; 

 bracts 3 to 4 or 5 inches long, and half an inch to an inch w ide, rather obtuse, 

 entire, often a little falcate, with abroadish striate midrib, strongly and reticulatc- 

 ly veined, smooth ; pedicels 1 third to 3 fuurths of an inch long, articulated, the 

 terminal portion pubescent. Calyx coriaceous, clothed with a short dense my 



