. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. LINDEN 4. Tilia Michauxii Nutt. Michaux's Bass-wood. Fig. 2846. T. alba Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 3; 315. 1813. Not L. T. Michauxii Nutt. Sylva, Ed. 2, 92. 1842 A forest tree, sometimes 90° tall, the bark broadly furrowed, or that of the branches smooth and silvery gray Leaves firm in texture, 9' long or less, serrate, whitish-pubescent beneat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. LINDEN 4. Tilia Michauxii Nutt. Michaux's Bass-wood. Fig. 2846. T. alba Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 3; 315. 1813. Not L. T. Michauxii Nutt. Sylva, Ed. 2, 92. 1842 A forest tree, sometimes 90° tall, the bark broadly furrowed, or that of the branches smooth and silvery gray Leaves firm in texture, 9' long or less, serrate, whitish-pubescent beneath, the apex acuminate, the base usually very oblique; floral bracts spatulate, attenuate toward the base and decurrent on the peduncle to above its base; staminodes' spatulate; petals light yellow, i"-$" long; fruit ovoid or globose, 4"-7" long. In rich soil, Connecticut to Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama. JuneâJuly. Family 85. MALVACEAE Neck. Act. Acad. Theod. 2: 488. 1770. Mallow Family. Herbs or shrubs (sometimes trees in tropical regions) with alternate mostly palmately-veined leaves. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers regular, perfect, often large, rarely dioecious or polygamous. Sepals 5 (rarely 3 or 4),more or less united, usually valvate; calyx often bracted at the base. Petals 5, hypogynous, convolute, often contorted. Stamens 00, hypogynous, monadelphous, forming a central column around the pistil, united with the bases of the petals; anthers i-celled. Ovary several-celled, entire or lobed; styles united below, distinct above, and generally projecting beyond the stamen-column, mostly as many as the cells of the ovary; ovules I or several in each cavity. Fruit capsular (rarely a berry), several-celled, the carpels falling away entire or else loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds reniform, globose or obovoid; embryo curved; cotyledons large, plicate or condu- plicate; endosperm little, or copious. About 45 genera and 900 species, widely distributed i
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