DESCRIPTION OP MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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TILIACEiE. (Linden Family.) 
Tilia pubescens, Ait. Linden or Basswood, also Lime tree 
or White-wood. A stately tree with soft and white wood, 
very fibrous and tough inner bark, heart shaped serrate 
leaves, 2-3' long, pubescent beneath, and rather thin of text- 
ure. Sepals and petals 5, stamens numerous, filaments coher- 
ing in 5 clusters, with petal-like scales amongst the stamens. 
Flowers in small cymes, hanging on an axillary peduncle, 
which is united to a ligulate membranacepus bract. Flowers 
cream color, honey-bearing, fragrant. Fruit dry and woody, 
indehiscent, globular, becoming 1-celled and 1-2 seeded. FI. 
May-June. East Tennessee, in and near the mountains. The 
bark is used officinally. 
Tilia heterophylla, Vent. White Basswood. Differs from the 
former in the larger size of the leaves which are also of a 
firmer texture, smooth and bright green above, and silvery- 
whitened with a fine down underneath. Most frequent along 
the water-courses of Middle Tennessee. FI. May-June. 
The bark can be used for the same purposes as the former. 
Tilia Europsea, L. Which is frequently planted, is very delicately 
fragrant and abounds still more in flowers than the native 
species, from which it is distinguished by the abseence of 
petal-like scales among the stamens. The odor of the flowers 
is due to a volatile ethereal oil, which soon dissipates, but the 
bracts on the peduncles are impregnated with a persistent 
fragrant resin, which remains fixed for a long time. The 
flowers with the bracts are an excellent diaphoretic remedy, 
given in infusion as a tea, and produce diaphoresis without 
vascular excitement. The addition of some lemon-juice 
makes the tea pleasant tasting and increases its action. 
GERANIACEiE. (Geranium Family.) 
Geranium maculatum, L. (Wild Crane’s bill.) Low herb with 
perennial rootstock. Ten stamens, ovary of 5 one-seeded 
carpels, separating elastically with their long styles when 
mature, 5 petals, light purple, bearded on the claw, long > 
