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Family TILIACE^E 

 Till A 35 Linnaeus 



*Tilia glabra Ventenat. 36 Basswood. 



Range.- — New Brunswick to Lake Superior (eastern shores) and to Lake Win- 

 nipeg (southern shores) and Assiniboine River; south to Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 through Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois and eastern Nebraska to Missouri. 



NAMES IN USE 



Basswood (Me., N. H., Vt., R. I., Beetree (Vt.). 



Mass., Conn., N. Y., N. J., Del., Ill, Wickup (Mass.). 



Lid., Mich., Ohio, Nebr, trade). Yellow Basswood (Ind.). 



American Linden (Me, N. H, R. I, Lein (Ind.). 



X. Y, Pa, Del, Ohio, 111., Nebr, Bass Tree. 



and hort.). Linn Tree. 



Linn (Pa, 111, Ind, Ohio, Mo, Nebr.). White Linn. 



Linden (Vt, R. I, Pa, Nebr.). Black Limetree. 



Limetree (R. I, 111.). Spoonwood. 



Whitewood (Vt, Ontario). Whistle-wood. 



Tilia porracea Ashe. Basswood. 



Range. — Western Florida (Okaloosa County in vicinity of Hickory Head). 



Tiiia leucocarpa Ashe. 37 Basswood. 



Range. — The range of this newly described species has not been fully deter- 

 mined. As now known, it occurs in central western Alabama (Dallas County, 

 Hatcher's Creek, Berlin), central eastern and southwestern Louisiana (West 

 Feliciana and Calcasieu Parishes), southwestern Mississippi (Adams and Hinds 

 Counties); southern Arkansas (Hempstead County); eastern Texas (Brazos 

 River). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Tilia nuda Sargent. 



NAME IN USE 



Basswood 



Tilia leucocarpa glaticescens (Sargent) Sudworth. Basswood. 



Range. — Central western Alabama (Dallas County, Alabama River, Berlin), 

 central western and southwestern Louisiana (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, 

 and Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish); southeastern Oklahoma (Le Flore 

 County). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Tilia nuda glaucescens 

 Sargent. 



NAME IN USE 



Basswood 



w The careful study of Tilia by C. S. Sargent (Bot. Gaz., LXVI, 421-438; 494-511, 1918) shows clearly 

 that we have long lacked an adequate understanding of our native species of this genus. Perhaps the 

 most distressing discovery made in this connection is the apparent necessity of discarding Linnaeus' name 

 Tilia aviericana, popularly one of our best-known trees, because it is impassible to determine to what linden 

 this name was applied or, in fact, whether the name does not include several different species. The very 

 grave doubt which Professor Sargent's studies of Tilia have raised regarding the correct status of Tilia 

 americana Linnaeus, as well as concerning other native species and varieties, would seem to make it neces- 

 sary to accept the careful revision he proposes. 



« The common northern basswood, for which the name Tilia americana Linnaeus has long been supposed 

 to be the correct designation. 



37 Formerly designated (in part) as Tilia pubescent var. a Aitonii Engler, and as Tilia americana var. a 

 densiflora Engler (as regards range, Houston, Tex.), and apparently by some authors as Tilia americana 

 <hot of Linnaeus) . It is Tilia nuda Sargent. 



