. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 686 The Basswoods and smooth, or nearly so. The bracts are oblong to narrowly obovate, lo to 13 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide, sessile or short-stalked, smooth and glaucous on either surface. The peduncle is smooth, the free portion 2 to 4 cm. long, with from 5 to 10 medium-sized flowers; the sepals are narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, to 4 mm. long; the petals are to 7 mm. long; the staminodes are entire, linear-
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 686 The Basswoods and smooth, or nearly so. The bracts are oblong to narrowly obovate, lo to 13 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide, sessile or short-stalked, smooth and glaucous on either surface. The peduncle is smooth, the free portion 2 to 4 cm. long, with from 5 to 10 medium-sized flowers; the sepals are narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, to 4 mm. long; the petals are to 7 mm. long; the staminodes are entire, linear- spatulate, slightly shorter than the petals. The fruit is globose. 3. FLORIDA BASSWOOD—Tilia floridana SmaU This, the smallest of the American species of Tilia, scarcely exceeds 9 meters in height, with a trunk about dm. in diameter. The bark is somewhat furrowed and not very thick. The leaves are thin, ovate or oval-ovate, 4 to 11 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, imequally subcordate or truncate at the base, abruptly short taper-pointed at the apex, serrate, the teeth tipped with prominent glands; the upper sur- face is smooth, deep green, the lower glaucous, somewhat hairy when young, glabrous or nearly so at maturity; the petiole is stout, rather short, 2 to 3 cm. long. The bracts are decurrent to within to cm. of the base of the pedun- cle, rather small, 7 to 10 cm. long, I to 2 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, somewhat hairy; the pedun- cle is hairy, the free portion to cm. long, few- to many-flowered; the sepals are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3 to mm. long; the petals to mm. long; the staminodes are almost linear or linear-spatulate, irregularly margined, someAyhat shorter than the petals. The fruit is globose, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter, covered with brownish gray hairs. A rare species as yet known only from the vicinity of Jacksonville, and in Orange county, Fig. 637. — Florida Basswood. 4. WHITE LINDEN —Tilia heterophyUa Venten
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