Features of Tree. Fifty to occasionally one hundred feet in height, two to four feet in diameter. A large, handsome, symmetrical tree, with cones resembling cucumbers. Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. Heartwood brownish yellow, sapwood nearly white, close-grained, compact structure. Satiny, thin medullary rays. Structural Qualities of Wood. Light, soft, not strong, durable. Qualities similar to whitewood. Representative Uses of Wood. Cabinet-making, cheap furniture, flooring, pump-logs, troughs, crates, packing-boxes. Used similarly to L. tulipifera. Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 29. Modulus of Elasticity. 1,310,000. Modulus of Rupture. 9500. Remarks. Wood resembles and is often sold for tulip-tree wood. [p087] BASSWOOD, LINN, LINDEN. _Tilia americana Linn._ Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) Basswood, Linn, Linden, American Linden (local and common names). Limetree (R. I., N. C., S. C., Ala., Minn., La., Ill.). Black or Smooth-leaved Limetree (Tenn.). Whitewood (Vt., W. Va., Ark., Minn.). Yellow Basswood, Lein (Ind.). Beetree (Vt., W. Va., Wis.). White Lind (W. Va.). Wickup (Mass.). Locality. New Brunswick to Georgia, westward intermittently to Nebraska and Texas. Wide range. Features of Tree. Sixty to ninety feet in height, two to four feet in diameter, occasionally larger. Large smooth leaves. Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. Heartwood light or reddish brown, thick sapwood nearly similar, very straight and close-grained, compact structure. Structural Qualities of Wood. Light, soft, easily worked, tough, not strong nor durable. Representative Uses of Wood. Sides and backs of drawers, bodies of carriages, woodenware, paper-pulp. Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 28. Modulus of Elasticity. 1,190,000. Modulus of Rupture. 8300. Remarks. Basswood refers to the inner bark or "bast," sometimes utilized for cordage. The flowers attract bees, whence the name bee-tree. White Basswood, (_Tilia heterophylla_,) is not distinguished commercially. [p088] WILLOW. (_Salix_.) The willows are very widely distributed over both continents, and their history extends back over a very considerable period. Pliny states that Britons used to make voyages in boats of willow. The willow mentioned in the Bible was the Salix babylónica, or weeping willow, later acclimated in this country.