. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 96. T^Ua europs^a. Spec. Char., Sfc. Petals without scales. Leaves cordate, acuminated, ser- rated, smooth, except a tuft of hair at the origin of the veins beneath, twice the length of the petioles. Cymes many-flowered. Fruit coriaceous, downy. {Don's Mill.) A large deciduous tree. Euro
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 96. T^Ua europs^a. Spec. Char., Sfc. Petals without scales. Leaves cordate, acuminated, ser- rated, smooth, except a tuft of hair at the origin of the veins beneath, twice the length of the petioles. Cymes many-flowered. Fruit coriaceous, downy. {Don's Mill.) A large deciduous tree. Europe, and Britain in some aboriginal woods. Height 60 ft. to 90ft. Flowers yellowish white; August and September. Fruit yellow ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves yellow, or yellowish brown. Naked voung wood reddish, or yellowish brown. » Varieties. The extensive distribution and long cultivation of this tree in Europe have given rise to the following varieties, or races, described by most botanists as species: — A. Varieties differing in respect to Foliage. S T. e. 1 parvifblia. T. microphylla Vent., Willd., Dec, and G. Don ; T. e. var. y L.; T. alraifolia Scop. ; T. sylvestris Desf.; T. parvifolia Elirh., Hayne Dend.; T. cordata Mill.; Tilleul a petites Feuilles Fr.; kleinblattrige Linde, or Winterlinde, Ger. (Willd. Holzart, t. 106.; Engl. Bot., t. 1705.; and our/g. 97.) — Leaves cordate, roundish, acuminated, sharply- serrated ; smooth above, glaucous and bearded beneath on the axils of the veins, as well as in hairy blotches. Fruit rather globose, hardly ribbed, very thin and brittle. Native of Europe, in sub-mountainous woods ; in England, frequent in Essex and Sussex, This variety is distinguish- / able, at first sight, from all the others, by the smallness of its leaves, which are only about 2 in. broad, and sometimes scarcely longer than their slender footstalks. The flowers are also much ^'- t. micropwua. smaller than in any of the other varieties ; they expand late
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