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more vigorous shoots than the European species. It 
prefers a deep and fertile soil, where the trunk grows 
remarkably straight, and the branches form a handsome, 
well-rounded summit. The flowers are borne on long 
stalks, and are pendulous from the branches. The leaves 
are large, heart-shaped, finely cut on the margin, and 
terminated by a point at the extremity. The seeds, 
which ripen in autumn, are like small peas, round and 
greyish. 
The white lime (T. alba) is rare in the eastern states, 
but common in Pennsylvania and the states south of it. 
It is not a tree of the largest size, but its flowers are the 
finest of our native sorts. The leaves are also very large, 
deep green on the upper surface, and white below ; they 
are more obliquely heart-shaped than those of the common 
basswood. The young branches are covered with a 
smooth silvery bark. This species is very common on 
the Susquehannah river. 
The Downy lime tree. (T. pubescens.) The under 
side of the leaves, and the fruits of this species, are, as its 
name denotes, covered with a short down. Its flowers 
are nearly white ; the serratures of the leaves wider 
apart, and the base of the leaf obliquely truncated. It is 
a handsome large tree, a native of Florida, though hardy 
enough, as experience proves, to bear our northern 
winters. 
The European lime (T. Europcea) is distinguished 
from the American sorts, by its smaller and more 
regularly cordate and rounded leaves. Unlike our 
native species, the flowers are not furnished with inner 
scale-like petals. The foliage is rather deeper in hue 
than the native sorts, and the branches of the head rathei 
