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hairy and about the fize of a fmall pea, having each 
one roundifh feed. 
2 . Ti l i A caroliniana. Carolinian oblique-leaved 
Lime-Tree. 
This is of finaller growth than the former, rifing 
commonly to the height of about forty feet, with a 
trunk of eighteen inches or more in diameter: co- 
vered with a lightifh and fomewhat furrowed bark, 
and fending off many branches. The leaves are 
finaller and fmoother than thofe of the other kind, 
fomewhat heart-fhaped, ending in long points, un- 
equal at the bafe, or larger on one fide of the midrib 
than the other, and flightly fawed on their edges. 
The bunches of flowers (land upon long {lender 
footflalks, furniflied with floral leaves. The flow- 
ers are fmall, and have narrow, pointed petals, fur- 
iiiflied with neCtaries or fcales at the bafe ; they dif- 
fufe a fragrant odour, and are continually haunted 
by bees during their continuance. An infufion of 
the flowers of Lime-tree has been ufed with fuccels 
in an Epilepfy. The timber is too foft for any ftrong 
purpofes, therefore, chiefly ufed by turners, carvers, 
&c. alfo, by architects in framing models of build- 
ings, 8zc. 
T I L L A N D S I A. 
T ILLANDSIA. 
Ciafs 6. Order l Hexandria Monogynia. 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, three-parted, oblong and 
permament: the divifions oblong-lanced, and ikarp- 
pointed. 
The Corolla tubulous and of one petal. The tube long and bel- 
lied, The border three-cleft, obtufe, ereft and fmall. 
The 
