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Title: The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees ..
Year: 1865 ( 1860s)
Authors: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. cn Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. 1n Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rice, Rutter & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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ng a powerful dis-cutient. IV.—7* THE LINDEN, oe LIME TREE. Natural Order, Tiliaceje, (Jussieu.) Linnasan Classijmatwn, POLYANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. V TILIA.* (Linn.) Sepals five. Petals five. Stamens numerous, disposed more or less in fiveclusters, the central tuft (chiefly in the native species) transformedinto a petal. The ovary globular, villous, and 5-celled, each of thecells bearing two ovules. Cajjside ligneous, globular, by abortiononly 1-celled, with one or two seeds. Cotyledons sinuate. Trees of Europe and North America, with alternate dilated orcordate leaves, oblique at the base, serrated on the margin, and witha tough and fibrous bark; stipules caducous. The flowers disposedin flattish pedunculated clusters, (or cymes,) and with the pedunclecuriously adnate for a great part of its length to a large membra-naceous, linear bracte. The rest of this family of plants are nearlyall tropical productions. * An ancient Latin name, probably from the Greek TzreXsa, the Elm. 106 PL XXSIU
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Tilia lieteroplivileL. larqe-leaved Lmdm Tilhul hctcrojilivlh LAEGE-LEAVED LINDEN, or LIME. TiLiA HETEROPHYLLA. FolUs ovatis, cirgute serraiis, basi nunc cordatis,nunc oblique aui cequaliter iru7icaiis, subtus iomentosis; nuce pisiformi.—Yentenat, Mem. de Ilnstitut., torn. 4, p. 16, pi. 5. Pursh, Flor.Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 363. Nouveau Duhamel, vol. i. p. 229.Decandolle, Prod., vol. i. p. 513. TiLiA HETEROPHYLLA. LeavGs glabroiis aud deep green above, verywliite and velvety-tomentose beneath, the veins dark-colored andneaily glabrous, with coarse mucronate serratures; petals obtuse,crenulate; staminodia (inner petals) spatulate, entire, style hairyat the base.—Torrey and Gray, Flor. ISTorth Amer., vol. i. p. 239. TiLiA ALBA.—Smiths Insects of Georgia, vol. i. p. 21, t. 11 ? This is one of the rarest and most ornamental trees of thewhole genus; and, as far as my own observations go, it is almostwholly confined to the shady forests of the Ohio and its tributarystreams, to which Pu

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