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XVIII. HYPERICACEiE. 
[ Tilia. 
in each cell. Albumen fleshy, including an erect embryo. — 
Trees or shrubs, with stipuled alternate leaves, and a mucilagi- 
nous wholesome juice, the inner bark exceedingly tenacious. — Rus- 
sian, or bast-matting is the inner bark of the Lime. 
1. Tilia Linn. Lime-Tree. 
Cal. 5-partite. Pet. 5, with or without a nectary at the base. 
Ovary 5-celled ; cells with 2 ovules. Fruit 1-celled, 1 — 2- 
seeded. — Name of obscure origin, perhaps from the Celtic ; in 
modern Gaelic, the Lime is called Teile. 
1. T. parvifolia Ehrh. (small-leaved L.) ; nectaries none, 
leaves glabrous except a woolly tuft in the axils of the nerves 
and veins beneath, branches and petioles glabrous, fruit oblique 
with filiform ribs chartaceous brittle at length nearly glabrous. 
E. B. t. 1705. T. microphylla Vent. 
Woods in Essex, Lincolnshire, Sussex, Wales; “safely to be 
reckoned indigenous:” Borrer. I?. 7,8. — Leaves when young 
covered beneath with stellate hairs. Angles or ribs of the fruit often 
concealed by the pubescence before it falls off. 
2. T. *Europce'a L. ( common L. or Linden-tree') ; nectaries 
none, leaves twice the length of the foot-stalks quite glabrous 
except a woolly tuft in the axils of the nerves and veins beneath, 
branches and petioles glabrous, fruit coriaceous downy nearly 
equal-sided with slightly prominent angles. E. B. t. 610. T. 
intermedia DC. 
Woods and hedgerows, probably not indigenous. Tj. 7. — Leaves 
pale beneath, but scarcely glaucous. A large and handsome tree ; its 
flowers “at dewy eve distilling odours,” yellowish-green, on a stalked 
cyme, springing from a large lanceolate foliaceous bractea, which falls 
oft' with the fructified cymes. Best distinguished from the last by the 
fruit. — Linnaeus is said to have derived his own name from the 
Swedish Lin, our Linden- or Lime-tree. 
3. T. * grandifolia Ehrh. (broad-leaved downy L.) ; nectaries 
none, leaves downy especially beneath with solitary hairs, axils 
of the nerves and veins woolly, young branches and petioles 
hairy, fruit woody downy with prominent angles. E. B. S. 
t. 2720. 
Woods and hedges, in several places ; scarcely wild. England and 
Ireland. Blair Athol, Scotland. Near Edinburgh, Tj. 6,7. — The 
angles or ribs of the fruit are often obscure when young, but are after- 
wards prominent. The number of flowers in the umbel or cyme 
varies from 2 to 9 in all our British species. 
Ord. XVIII. HYPERICACEiE Juss. 
Sepals 4 — 5, distinct or cohering, persistent, frequently with 
glandular dots. Petals 4— 5, with a twisted aestivation and 
