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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
Small-leaved Lime {Tilia parvifolia). Does not attain 
the large proportions of the others. Leaves about two inches 
across, smooth ; on the lower surface the axils of the nerves are 
glaucous and downy, with hairy patches between nerves. Fruit 
thin-shelled and brittle, downy, and very faintly ribbed. The 
upper leaves show a tendency to lobing. 
Large-leaved Lime [Tilia platyphyllos). Bark rougher. 
Twigs hairy. Leaves larger (four inches) and rougher, downy 
beneath, axils of the nerves woolly. Fruit of more oval shape, 
woody and strongly ribbed when ripe. 
Common Lime [Tilia vulgaris). Intermediate between the 
others. Leaves larger than those of T. parvifolia, smaller than 
those of T. platyphyllos j downy in axils beneath. Twigs 
smooth. Fruit woody, but without ribs. 
The name Lime was originally Linde, a form which, with the 
addition of n, is in use to-day. Chaucer and other English 
writers spell it Line and Lyne, and the transition from this 
form to that commonly used to-day 'has been effected by 
changing the n to m. Originally it meant pliant, and had 
reference to the useful bast from which cordage and other 
flexible things were made. 
The Wych Elm [Ulmus montana). 
Of the two species of Elms commonly grown in these islands 
this alone is a native, though the Common or Small-leaved 
Elm [Ulmus campestris) was introduced from the Continent by 
the Romans, so that it has had time to get itself widely dis- 
tributed over our country. Other names for the Wych Elm are 
Mountain Elm, Scots Elm, and Witch Hazel — the last-named 
being now more generally applied to an American plant, the 
Hamamelis. The philologists appear to be uncertain as to the 
origin and meaning of Wych, but it seems most probably a form 
