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AMERICAN LIME' oa BASS WOOD, 
Polyandria monogynia. Linn. Tiliacese. Joss. 
Tima ameeicawa. T.foliis suborbiculato-cordaiis, abrupte acuminatis, argute 
serratis, glabris ; petalis apice truncatis ; nuce ovatâ. 
Among- the Lime Trees of North America, east of the Mississippi, this 
species is the most multiplied. It exists in Canada, but is more common 
in the northern parts of the United States, where it is usually called Bass 
Wood: it becomes less frequent toward the south, and in 'Virginia, the 
Carolinas and Georgia, it is found only on the Alleghany Mountains. 
I found this species of Lime Tree most abundant in Gennessee, which 
borders on làke Erie and lake Ontario. In some districts, particularly 
between Batavia and New Amsterdam, it frequently constitutes two-thirds, 
and sometimes the whole, of the forests. The Sugar Maple, the White 
Elm and the White Oak, are the trees with which it most frequently 
associates. 
In newly cleared lands, the remains of the Lime Trees are distinguished 
by the numerous sprouts which cover the stumps and the large roots, whose 
growth can be prevented only by stripping off the bark or by the operation 
of fire. The stumps of other large trees, the Elm, the Sugar Maple and 
the Ash, left at the same height of 3 feet, do not produce shoots. 
The presence of the Lime Tree indicates a loose, deep and fertile soil. 
It is sometimes more than 80 feet high and 4 feet in diameter, and its 
straight, uniform trunk, crowned with an ample and tufted summit, forms 
a beautiful tree. The leaves are alternate, large, nearly round, finely 
denticulated, heart-shaped at the base, and abruptly terminated in a point 
at the summit. The flowers are borne by long peduncles, pendulous, sub- 
divided at the extremity, and garnished with a long, narrow, floral leaf. 
The seeds, which are ripe about the first of October, are round and of a 
gray color. The flowers of the American Lime Tree are probably' 
endowed with the same antispasmodic and cephalic properties which are 
ascribed to those of the European species. , 
The trunk is covered with a very thick bark : the cellular tissue, separated 
from the epidermis and macerated in water, is formed into ropes, which 
