LARGE LEAVED LINDEN, OR LIME. 
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very white and velvety-tomentose beneath, the veins dark 
coloured and nearly glabrous, with coarse mucronate serra- 
tures; petals obtuse, crenulate; staminodia [inner petals] 
spatulate, entire, style hairy at the base. Torrey and Gray, 
Flor. North Amer., vol. 1. p. 239. 
Tilia alba. Smith’s Insects of Georgia, vol. 1. p. 21. t. 11? 
This is one of the rarest and most ornamental trees 
of the whole genus, and as far as my own observations 
go, it is almost wholly confined to the shady forests of 
the Ohio and its tributary streams, to which Pursh also 
adds the banks of the Mississippi; Torrey and Gray 
received it likewise from the neighbourhood of Macon, in 
Georgia, where it was collected by our late mutual friend 
and excellent observer Doctor Loomis. In descending 
the Ohio, late in autumn, (about the year 1816,) I 
got out of the boat in which I was descending to walk 
round Le Tart’s Rapids above Cincinnati, here I ob- 
served almost an exclusive forest of this fine Linden, on 
a rather elevated alluvial platform, in a light, rich cal- 
careous soil. Most of the trees were tall and rather 
slender, 60 to 80 feet in height, and the ground was 
thickly strewed with their large and singular leaves, 
almost as white as snow beneath. According to the 
herbarium of Mr. Schweinitz, it exists also in Virginia, 
probably on the borders of the streams which flow into 
the Ohio, near Pittsburgh; and according to Doctor 
Short, of Lexington, Kentucky, it forms in his vicinity 
one of the largest forest trees in the rich lands there. 
Decandolle speaks of having received a specimen of 
some very similar species from Mexico. It does not 
yet appear to have been introduced into Europe, though 
it is properly described in the new Duhamel, probably 
from Ventenat’s essay, as the leaves are said to be 
snow-white beneath. 
The young branches are purplish and somewhat glau- 
