BASSWOOD (Tilia americana or T. glabra), a North Amer ican tree of the lime genus, called also linden, linn and whitewood, valuable for timber and planted for shade and ornament. It grows native from New Brunswick to Lake Winnipeg and southward to Virginia and Missouri, but is most abundant in the States adjoin ing the Great Lakes, Michigan and Wisconsin furnishing about half the basswood lumber produced in the United States. The sim ilar white basswood (T. heterophylla), of the Appalachian region, and the downy basswood (T. pubescens), of the southern States, are utilized also for lumber. In 1936 the total cut of basswood lumber in the United States amounted to 89,000,00o board feet. (See LIME or LINDEN.)