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there in our parks and promenades, and is common in our woods, 
is easily distinguished from the preceding species by its smooth 
leaf-buds ; its mature leaves are often very small, with smooth or 
glabrous lower surface, only having bristles at the angles of the 
ramifications of the veins. But we must pass to the description 
of the flower (Fig. 395). The calyx consists of five lanceolated 
sepals, the corolla of five petals longer than the sepals. The 
Fig. 395.—Flower of the Lime-tree. 
e hypogynous and very numerous, free or Feces 
plyadlp tos at their base; their elongated filaments bearing 
two cells, opening from within by two longitudinal clefts. The 
eh is free, and generally has five biovulate cells with anatropal 
The style is simple, and the stigmata five-lobed. The : 
oo ft 18 acoriaceous, indehiscent, cupular, unilocular byt the disap- 
___ Pearance of the dissepiment, and only contains two seeds by ab 
Seeds each enclose a fleshy albumen and an embryo, ¥ rith foli 
: dee cotyledons nearly rolled up. The flowers of the Lime contain 
oe oil, with sugar, mucilage, gum, nei tad ee. 
» in medicine as ~~ . Of allindigenous 
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